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photojosh
on Jan 16, 2014
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Nassim Taleb: We should retire the notion of stand...
Indeed, why does it not make sense? I read that, I immediately know that about 68% will be between 165 and 170 cm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68–95–99.7_rule
hrjet
on Jan 16, 2014
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That rule only applies to normal distribution. So you would have made an assumption.
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