notion parallax » mathematics http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog what happens when ideas slide past each other Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:47:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Nature by numbers http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/04/nature-by-numbers/ http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/04/nature-by-numbers/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:52:25 +0000 Ben http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/?p=494

This is well worth watching in full screen!

]]> http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/04/nature-by-numbers/feed/ 0 more normal than most http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/04/more-normal-than-most/ http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/04/more-normal-than-most/#comments Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:18:28 +0000 Ben http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/?p=481 I was always a bit confused by one of  the lyrics of Tricky’s Struglin’ – “I think I’m more normal than most”.

I’ve just finished the very short introduction to statistics, and now I get it!

So the X axis is something, like cleanliness or laziness, and the Y axis is how many people are that clean or lazy.

If the distribution looks like this, then if you are in the middle, then you are more normal than most!

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