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I think you are wrong. I think randomly drawing any significant number of people from a pool that isn't normally distributed is still likely to result in a nor
by craigyk 13y ago
I think you are wrong. I think randomly drawing any significant number of people from a pool that isn't normally distributed is still likely to result in a normal distribution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem
- zosima 13y agoNo, that's not quite right. Randomly picking people from a distribution should eventually end up giving the original distribution. Taking n people from a pool m times, then the means of those m samplings will be normally distributed however (given the constraints of the CLT of course).