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Re:Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found securit... by leephillips on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:20PM (#28947788)
That’s not what the central limit theorem says, and it’s not and cannot be true in practice.
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Re:Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found securit... by arcticbull on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:23PM (#28947844)
I was taking humans political opinions as the sum of a sum of independent random variables :) still may have been a bit of flourish, I suppose.
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Re:Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found securit... by leephillips on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:30PM (#28947947)
Sorry, still doesn’t mean that the quantity that you’re averaging (position on the left-right political spectrum?) will be normally distributed. In fact, it almost certainly won’t be. But it’s a common error.
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Re:Gov Parson pushes to prosecute reporter who found securit... by arcticbull on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:35PM (#28948016)
Well, thank you for letting me know!
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