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wodenokoto ◴[] No.41913255[source]
> You can see that the data is clustered around the mean value. Another way of saying this is that the distribution has a definite scale. [..] it might theoretically be possible to be 2 meters taller than the mean, but that’s it. People will never be 3 or 4 meters taller than the mean, no matter how many people you see.

The way the author defines definite scale is that there is a max and a minimum, but that is not true for a gaussian distribution. It is also not true that if we keep sampling wealth (an example of a distribution without definite scale used in the article), there is no limit to the maximum.

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klysm ◴[] No.41913691[source]
I think he’s saying that the distribution of human heights has definite scale, not the Gaussian?
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1. wodenokoto ◴[] No.41921312[source]
No, author very much says the Gaussian has definite scale:

> There are a few distributions like this with a definite scale, but the Gaussian is the most famous one.