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Re:Normal vs. Fat-tailed Distributions by rypit on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @11:49AM (#5978622)
It would be awesome if these could be embedded in Wikipedia somehow.
Re:Normal vs. Fat-tailed Distributions by ableal on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @11:58AM (#5978692)
My laptop's fan says that may not be advisable.

P.S. sometimes people overlook how a well-drawn illustration may be superior to photos or video; think anatomical drawings, for instance. In this case I feel the lack of two simple curves superimposed to illustrate the point about the variance.