Poisonous Statistical Misunderstanding

Poisonous Statistical Misunderstanding
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That moment when you realize the Poisson distribution isn't named after deadly toxins but some French mathematician named Siméon Denis Poisson. The teacher's face says it all – another student who thought statistics was going to be more exciting than it actually is. The disappointment is palpable. Next you'll be telling me the Normal distribution isn't about being average at parties and Chi-square isn't a fancy coffee drink. Statistics: where even the exciting-sounding terms are mathematical letdowns.

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