[fsckboy]

combining repeated samples of any distribution* (any population density fuction including power law distributions) will converge to the normal distribution, that's why it appears everywhere.

* excluding bizarre degenerates like constants or impulse functions

[abetusk]

No, that's not correct. Sums of power law distributions can converge to power low tailed distributions, not normal distributions.

[AndrewKemendo]

No use arguing with them they don’t have enough mathematical understanding to understand what they’re saying