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		photojosh on Jan 16, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 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 [–]

That rule only applies to normal distribution. So you would have made an assumption.

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