Why isn't everything normally distributed?

Re:Why isn't everything normally distributed? by justifier on Thursday July 20, 2017 @09:42PM (#14817519)

reminds me of this joke from a lecture Lawrence Krauss gave in 2009 of his work in 'A Universe From Nothing':

> it was made after the discovery that on a log log plot everything is a straight line(o)

i'd recommend the entire lecture, but definitely at least check out the anecdote this joke bookends

it is about hubble's original 1929 embarrassing failed attempt to calculate the rate of the expansion of the universe(i)

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Re:Why isn't everything normally distributed? by azernik on Friday July 21, 2017 @01:43AM (#14818325)

The version I've heard is "everything on a log log plot in a sufficiently thick marker".

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