alt Hacker NewsThat’s exactly the right take and the article proves it:
Statisticians love averages so everywhere that could be sampled as a normal distribution will be presented as one
The median is actually more descriptive and power law is equally as pervasive if not more
combining repeated samples of any distribution* (any population density fuction including power law distributions) will converge to the normal distribution, that's why it appears everywhere.
* excluding bizarre degenerates like constants or impulse functions