ickplant@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 10 hours agoIt's depressing, manlemmy.worldimagemessage-square40fedilinkarrow-up1813arrow-down11
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minus-squareWR5@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·7 hours agoI mean, it is intended to be how averages work for sufficiently large sample sizes. That’s the intent of a bell curve. For 800 people, maybe not, but for 8 billion? Probably extremely close.
minus-squarevala@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down6·6 hours agoI guess my point is really just that it’s a curve and not a triangle.
I mean, it is intended to be how averages work for sufficiently large sample sizes. That’s the intent of a bell curve. For 800 people, maybe not, but for 8 billion? Probably extremely close.
I guess my point is really just that it’s a curve and not a triangle.