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thatcat on Nov 19, 2024 | 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 on Nov 19, 2024 [–]

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

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