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32 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 10 June 2013 06:12AM

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Comment author: RomeoStevens 10 June 2013 05:54:55PM *  5 points [-]

Related: although many distributions are normal, It seems that people often assume an unfamiliar distribution must be either normal or uniform. Multimodal in particular seems to be an oft neglected possibility.