Mark Chu-Carroll has a good short discussion of the statistical concept of a "normal distribution" up.
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Orac is refusing to surrender and acknowledge the obvious fact that he simple *is not* as much of a geek as I am. So I am obligated to point out several further facts in my attempt to make him surrender the crown of geekiness.
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I've been desparately trying to think of a bad pun on Gaussian, but have failed. :-(
Anyway, I think the basic concepts idea is great, so I hope it keeps going long enough for you to work out how to write on e on species.
Bob
Bob:
My Physics professor wife and I worked half a year for a couple of sleazy Hollywood producers on a profitable CD-ROM edutainment project. They never paid us, and we had to sue right up through my unanimous California Supreme Court victory against them. Still never collected a penny. The point is, they kept referring to what we were doing in digital post-production as what they prounounced as "gauze-ian" as if we were filming with gauzy cloth over a lens. Idiots!