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Here is a publication of the SA article's author in which she and her co-author explain their "default human" critique in more detail (linked in the SA article).

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.6757...

I only skimmed the text. The normal distribution isn't mentioned, but if you combine the SA article with this text (which is linked in the SA article as a reference for her normal distribution critique), it gives the impression that the author somehow thinks that the normal distribution is intentionally "engineered" / "used" as a tool of suppression.

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Wait what the hell?

Someone should tell the author that normal distribution is a property of the central limit theorem: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_limit_theorem

Take 10, 6-sided dice. Roll them all and sum the total. Do it many times and you’ll see a normal distribution magically emerge out of nothingness.

That article seems like a cobbled together thesis based on radical Marxism and Tweets from random people.

And this author is a Professor of Nursing at UCSF?

This is a person teaching our next generation of healthcare workers?

"That article seems like a cobbled together thesis based on radical Marxism and Tweets from random people."

Pretty much describes journalism profession today. A jumble of fallacies suspended in a soiled tissue of pseudo-consensus.

I'm sure conditions will improve as a new batch of journalists re-aligns the profession with reality.

Are nurses known for being scientifically literate? My daughter has a friend who is a nurse that worked at a hospital throughout the pandemic. She is convinced that Covid is a hoax and has thrown anti-mask parties at her house.

My understanding is that Florence Nightingale was a solid statistician, of course that's just one data point

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Nightingale#Statistic...

If this was a random nurse I might agree. But this person is a professor at UCSF.

There's a "References" section where the authors list numerous things having nothing to do with radical Marxism and tweets.

You're crusading real hard in this thread, maybe take it down a notch.

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