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Comment by cyberax

5 days ago

It actually is for the normal distribution.

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bandrami  5 days ago

Household income is not normally distributed. In fact nothing with a hard zero can be normally distributed.

twoodfin  5 days ago

Sure, but I’m certain US household income is not normally distributed, and I’d bet all the money in my pockets that US household Amazon spend isn’t normally distributed, either.

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