This utterly bewilders and enrages the normalfag
>>83088222I been saying thisWhatever the fuck you guys do, go all the waybe extreme
>>83088222I'm no statsfag so if you are please enlighten me, but it seems like every time you measure some quality or trait of humans, it falls into either a normal distribution or a pareto distribution.
im in the middle because im the best
>>83088255Yes, because of the central limits theorem:>In probability theory, the central limit theorem (CLT) states that, under appropriate conditions, the distribution of a normalized version of the sample mean converges to a standard normal distribution. This holds even if the original variables themselves are not normally distributed.
>>83088222Just wait til they hear about Student's t distribution.>>83088255There's also the Poisson distribution for discrete (countable) events. E.g. number of farts on a given day.>>83088428There's more to it than just this. CLT only says "the average height is normally distributed," not that heights themselves are normally distributed. The difference is that the former is saying "take any collection of 30+ people and find their average height. If you did this 100 times, and plotted the average, they'd fall on normal* graph." Whereas the latter says "Just plot the height of people, 1 dude at a time, and it'll be normal." They are distinct things, and I think the reason why our height is normal ANYWAY is because it's the cumulative effect of many bernoulli trials>Genetic factors (e.g. height) are essentially the cumulative sum of 1's or 0's (depending on whether the gene makes you taller or shorter)>This means that genetic factors could be thought of as some kind of binomially distributed RV with a high N>Because N is high, the binomial distribution becomes very close to normalPretty neat, really.*This becomes more true for increasing sample sizes
>>83088561>>Genetic factors (e.g. height) are essentially the cumulative sum of 1's or 0's (depending on whether the gene makes you taller or shorter)Doesn't this assume that all the variables combine linearly?
>>83088561>>83089139Also, now that I think about it, wouldn't things like dwarfism make height multi-modal?
