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Re:Eastern Antarctica sees record temperatures 70 degrees ab... by lanstin on Saturday March 19, 2022 @02:52PM (#30736565)
Five standard deviations is not four percent, it is in the 1 in 3 Million range.
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Re:Eastern Antarctica sees record temperatures 70 degrees ab... by FabHK on Sunday March 20, 2022 @07:32AM (#30741786)
Yes, for a normal, which is known to have extremely thin tails (decaying with a squared exponential!). Chebyshev's bound holds for any possible distribution (with finite variance).
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