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Podcast: The Neurodivergent Professor
Episode: KEW Episode 98: The Normal Curve
Description: Are you familiar with the 'bell curve'? It's also called a 'normal curve', or a Gaussian distribution because it describes what statisticians call a 'normal distribution'. Here's the wikipedia definition:a probability distribution that is symmetric about the mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the meanAnd here's a video link if you want a more detailed explanation. Essentially, this picture is a visual image of how 'typical' things sort of fall out in the world. Like size of la...