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Comment author: Lumifer 21 April 2015 03:46:00PM 0 points [-]

because the statistics folks to often think that real world data is supposed to follow a normal distribution like the textbook example they faced in university.

That is, ahem, bullshit. Stupid undergrads might think so for a short while, "statistics folks" do not.

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 21 April 2015 04:17:53PM 1 point [-]

"Statisticians think everything is normally distributed" seems to be one of those weirdly enduring myths. I'd love to know how it gets propagated.

Comment author: Emile 21 April 2015 09:51:15PM 0 points [-]

I can't say I ran into it before (whereas "economists think humans are all rational self-interested agents", jeez...)

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