| ▲ | fluoridation 5 hours ago |
| Just because it's approximated by a bell curve doesn't make it a bell curve. There are quite obvious separate phenomena shaping the curve at different times. |
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| ▲ | khalic 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > just because it's approximated by a bell curve doesn't make it a bell curve I'm going to assume this is bait... |
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| ▲ | jdlshore 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Bell curves are probability distributions. This is a time series, so it can’t be a bell curve. It just has the same shape. | | |
| ▲ | khalic 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Are you discarding the utility of Gaussian functions in analysis simply because the independent variable is time? A Gaussian curve can be used as a descriptive model without claiming that the observations themselves are a probability distribution The fit does not prove causation, but it does show that the decline was already well described by a trend that began years before generative AI. If the claim is that 2023 created a separate structural break, it's different claim then the title describes |
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| ▲ | strken 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Do you mean "just because it's a bell curve, doesn't make it a normal distribution"? |
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