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thatcat 7 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Scientific American's departing editor and the pol...

It is simply saying the assumption of a normal distribution is incorrect for the population, which without context of what particular data they were observing would be impossible to know if it is in fact nonsense.

jayd16 7 months ago [–]

So, quite sesnsical indeed but possibly, circumstantially incorrect? It seems like a non-controversial stance to take.

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