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Re: Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren't Average ultramarina #128892 05/03/12 01:28 PM
Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 1,390 Seattle area E ElizabethN Member
ElizabethN Member E Joined: Feb 2012 Posts: 1,390 Seattle area	Originally Posted by ultramarina I think it's best to review the actual article (which actually is quite heavy on the stats indeed) before we start taking potshots at the simplistic NPR coverage. I'm distracted at the moment, but I'm not actually grasping the original article that well myself; however, it's definitely occurred to me to wonder why we assume that the bell curve is a constant. Because the Central Limit Theoren says that for any distribution of an underlying variable, for a large enough value of N, a normal distribution will be observed.

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Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren't Average	Ultralight Hiker	05/03/12 07:32 PM
Re: Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren't Average	ColinsMum	05/03/12 07:51 PM
Re: Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren't Average	Dude	05/03/12 08:00 PM
Re: Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren't Average	ElizabethN	05/03/12 08:08 PM
Re: Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren't Average	Val	05/03/12 08:27 PM
Re: Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren't Average	chris1234	05/08/12 04:44 AM
Re: Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren't Average	ultramarina	05/03/12 08:24 PM
Re: Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren't Average	ElizabethN	05/03/12 08:28 PM
Re: Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren't Average	LNEsMom	05/07/12 10:03 PM
Re: Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren't Average	ElizabethN	05/09/12 05:30 AM
Re: Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren't Average	ColinsMum	05/03/12 08:34 PM
Re: Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren't Average	Dude	05/03/12 08:41 PM
Re: Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren't Average	mithawk	05/08/12 12:20 AM
Re: Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren't Average	Val	05/03/12 08:50 PM
Re: Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren't Average	Math Dad	05/03/12 11:17 PM
Re: Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren't Average	Bostonian	05/03/12 08:59 PM
Re: Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren't Average	mithawk	05/08/12 12:34 AM
Re: Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren't Average	LNEsMom	05/08/12 04:31 AM
Re: Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren't Average	ultramarina	05/08/12 01:18 PM
Re: Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren't Average	Austin	05/08/12 07:14 PM
Re: Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren't Average	Bostonian	05/09/12 03:32 PM

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