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by tiler2915072 1171 days ago
As others have pointed out for the authors discussion this fact doesn’t really matter.

However what does matter is that the authors probably is not estimating the average correctly partially due to this bug. If they scaled without fixing their excessive string storage, they would probably find their estimate to be off.

Even with the fix I’d be surprised if the underlying distribution of data per user is normally distributed.