see your β there? you assume that people remember to “control for bias” before they apply tools that assume Gaussian error
that is indeed what I should have remembered about the implications of “we can often assume approximately normal distribution” from my statistics course ~15 years ago, but then I saw people complaining about sensitivity to outliers in 1 direction and I failed to make a connection until I dug deeper into my reasoning
see your β there? you assume that people remember to “control for bias” before they apply tools that assume Gaussian error
that is indeed what I should have remembered about the implications of “we can often assume approximately normal distribution” from my statistics course ~15 years ago, but then I saw people complaining about sensitivity to outliers in 1 direction and I failed to make a connection until I dug deeper into my reasoning