> People start with the same allotment of capital, and are given a number between 0 and 1 to represent their “talent”. Talent is normally distributed.
Maybe the author meant "uniformly distributed"?
EDIT: Looks like talent is normally distributed with mean 0.6 and stddev 0.1, so it's quite likely between 0.3 and 0.9 (and most likely between 0 and 1, indeed).
> People start with the same allotment of capital, and are given a number between 0 and 1 to represent their “talent”. Talent is normally distributed.
Maybe the author meant "uniformly distributed"?
EDIT: Looks like talent is normally distributed with mean 0.6 and stddev 0.1, so it's quite likely between 0.3 and 0.9 (and most likely between 0 and 1, indeed).