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by freemint 1527 days ago
Neat i didn't think about that. But that is less improbable then 1 in 12450197393 which is what you might get with normal distribution.
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That's just because Chevyshev bounds is a very weak general statement about all distributions.

High Energy Physics sigma is calibrated to match normal distribution quantiles.