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spxtr comments on Open thread, January 25- February 1 - Less Wrong Discussion

8 Post author: NancyLebovitz 25 January 2014 02:52PM

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Comment author: spxtr 25 January 2014 08:47:22PM 0 points [-]

Mean and variance are closely related to center of mass and moment of inertia. This is good intuition to have, and it's statistical. The only difference is that the first two are moments of a probability distribution, and the second two are moments of a mass distribution.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 25 January 2014 09:00:14PM -2 points [-]

Using the word "distribution" doesn't make it statistical.