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by toxik 1147 days ago
I think this is on point, and also: an ordinary person is extreme, ie, there will be parameters outside the normal interval. This is because there are so many dimensions of personality, and the higher the number of dimensions, the more surface-to-volume you get for a given volume. So if personalities are sampled from a hypersphere, it is likely to get a point on the surface in the high dimensional case.