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jacquesm • yesterday at 8:43 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

As far as I'm aware these poll results have (roughly) a normal distribution, right now the spread between the two extremes in polls with sufficiently high 'N' to be taken into account in most reports differ by 19%.


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dwattttt • yesterday at 9:21 PM

"standard normal" isn't the same as "normal"; standard normal defines the mean & variance (0 & 1 respectively), but normal distributions can have any mean & variance.