Made a fun thread tho! Fun aside for a moment, have you read @nntaleb’s The Black Swan and/or discussed his judgment of the Gaussian bell curve as “that great intellectual fraud?” His attack is primarily on its misuse in fin markets to measure risk (volatility as std deviation).
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I read it a long time ago so don't remember the specifics. But I do remember reading it in my final year of undergrad as a finance major while working on a VaR analysis and thinking, "oh, lol, why are they teaching me this, it's obviously faulty."
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p sure those are not mutually exclusive groups
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But they do have biases wrt interpreting this question ;)
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