cabalamat comments on Less Wrong Q&A with Eliezer Yudkowsky: Ask Your Questions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: cabalamat 12 November 2009 03:46:51AM 5 points [-]

Once almost no one understood the concept of a bell curve or a standard deviation, but now the average person has a basic understanding of how these concepts apply to the real world.

I suspect that, on the contrary, >50% of the population have very little idea what either term means.