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Lumifer comments on Open Thread, Apr. 20 - Apr. 26, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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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: Lumifer 21 April 2015 06:37:09PM 1 point [-]

Someone was overly impressed by the Central Limit Theorem... X-)

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