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by cycomanic 1151 days ago
From that post:

> It is not possible, in a normal distribution, to be multiple times the standard deviation away from the mean. However, it happens much more easily with a log normal.

Should that read it is not _impossible_ otherwise it is quite wrong. I mean it's a gaussian probability distribution you sure can be several standard deviations away from the mean, admittedly at smaller and smaller probability