Help you contextualize what to expect given a certain data set (Normal, Power or other distributions). Normal distribution have a fat lump in the middle and two “tails” that stretch off in either direction, getting smaller and smaller. That these tails get smaller and smaller, however, is an understatement. Written out as a function, a normal curve trails off according to a decaying exponential, squared. They appear everywhere from heigh to IQ
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