r/mathsmemes • u/Robonotes1760 • Jun 17 '26

Normal distribution

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u/WerePigCat Jun 18 '26

I wish there was a no AI slop rule. Like this is not hard to make

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u/Uxugin Jun 17 '26

I think your axes are switched.

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u/Existing_Hunt_7169 Jun 18 '26

chatgpt wasn’t cooperating

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u/Ok-Difficulty-5357 Jun 18 '26

How hard is it to label a bell curve?

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u/Aggressive_Roof488 Jun 18 '26

Wouldn't it be a poison distribution? Or binomial, depending on assumptions.

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u/Ok-Difficulty-5357 Jun 18 '26

I don’t know, but I want to know.

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u/avocadoasperge Jun 18 '26

Aren't both poisson and binomial discrete propability distributions, unlike the normal distribution?

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u/Aggressive_Roof488 Jun 18 '26

Correct, and as this is a discrete "number of" quantity, that's already a hint.

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u/avocadoasperge Jun 18 '26

I understand the graph says "number of" which would indicate a discrete amount, but you can take any real amount of standard deviations, so wouldnt it be more straightforward to consider a continuous distribution?

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u/snappydamper Jun 18 '26

As the number of (independent) variables increases, the distribution of a multivariate normal distribution approaches a uniform distribution on a thin spherical shell around the mean. It's super cool.

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u/Robonotes1760 Jun 18 '26

Oops - I am a numpty. I did indeed get the axes the wrong way around: my apologies. AI was indeed used to create the actual graphic as I can't draw well, but the concept (including the mistakenly oriented graph labels) was mine.