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by Others 1952 days ago
Who are the “they” here? I’m assuming you’re not calling trans people abnormal, right?
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No I'm not talking about trans people, I'm talking about people who bring up the phobias and the -isms anytime a statistical model comes out.

We're all abnormal, which is why it's important to be careful how we use statistical models, but the acknowledgment and exploitation of normality is not an attack against people who deviate from it, it is the foundation of statistics and all of science. Calling the authors bigots does nothing to improve these issues, rather the opposite.

It's a joke about normal distributions