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The current graph is actively misleading because it misrepresents the data as following a (truncated) normal distribution when that's very unlikely to be the ca
by teraflop 13y ago
The current graph is actively misleading because it misrepresents the data as following a (truncated) normal distribution when that's very unlikely to be the case. A histogram would show the actual distribution.
The kind of graph being used here -- a "best fit" bell curve based on the sample mean/s.d. -- can be useful when overlaid on a histogram, to illustrate how closely the data can be approximated by a normal distribution. Without that context, it's essentially meaningless.