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Re:Why isn't everything normally distributed? by denzil_correa on Friday July 21, 2017 @03:47AM (#14818783)
> But in astronomy, nothing is normally distributed. (At least, nothing comes to mind.) Instead, everything is a power law.

Power law fits to empirical data are heavily misused.

http://cs.unm.edu/~aaron/blog/archives/2007/06/power_laws_an...

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