Fun with Math: Normal Distribution Edition
From the Twitters. What say you?
Normal Distribution. đ pic.twitter.com/gx7hJ1aa0s
— Great Women of Mathematics (@GWOMaths) January 9, 2020
by Andrew Donaldson · January 10, 2020
From the Twitters. What say you?
Normal Distribution. đ pic.twitter.com/gx7hJ1aa0s
— Great Women of Mathematics (@GWOMaths) January 9, 2020
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Andrew Donaldson
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I’d want to see a goodness-of-fit test, but yeah.Report
It’s clearly symmetrical, but I can’t verify normal in my head.Report
No, the bottom part of the stack is ten-pound weights and the top part is five-pounders. So the apparent symmetry is actually a longer tail on the heavy side of the stack.Report
This post is nerd-sniping!Report
I’ve always been an easy target.Report
Do you even line-of-best-fit, bro?Report
Doh… wonât let me edit. Better to have been…
âDo you even li(ne-of-best)f(i)t, bro?âReport
Sucker bet. Never say something *is* a normal distribution, only that it *approximates* one.Report