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The Typical American Lives Only 18 Miles From Mom (lemmy.world)
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Edit: source with some more info

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-family.html

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[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

That said, if you wanted another acceptable alternative, you can also remove all outliers and likely return the curve back to normal.

I'm not sure I would call that "acceptable." I would be more likely to call it "destroying the interesting features of the data."

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Acceptable in the statistical sense. Normality is required by a lot of statistical tests, so it's done a lot. There are better ways to do it without losing important insights though, hence what I said later in that paragraph.

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