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		fsckboy on Oct 10, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We should measure well-being instead of failing to... > I bet computing 1st to 99th %-ile would be even worse that's just a property of the normal distribution: if you know the difference between 5 and 95, you know the rest of the curve.

huitzitziltzin on Oct 10, 2022 [–]

You are misunderstanding something. The comparison they are reporting is a comparison between the 5th and 95th percentiles of the empirical distribution of measured productivities. The normal distribution has nothing to do with this.

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