Let's Spice Things Up With Bell Curve Existentialism

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Let's Spice Things Up With Bell Curve Existentialism

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The perfect marriage of statistics and existential dread! This bell curve meme brilliantly captures how intelligence relates to our perception of physics. The average folks (68% in the middle) think "physics is discovered" - blissfully accepting that natural laws exist independently of human thought. Meanwhile, both the statistically challenged (left tail) and the frighteningly brilliant minds (right tail) converge on "physics is invented" - just for completely different reasons. One group can't grasp basic concepts, while the other has delved so deep into theoretical physics they've realized it's all just mathematical models we created to explain observations. Nothing like a normal distribution to remind you that being too smart or too dumb leads to the same unsettling conclusion!

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