It Might Look Normal But This Distribution Will Ruin Your Stats

Some refer to the normal distribution as "God's curve" because of its supposed presence in nature when enough observations are collected. But what if I told you that there is a non-normal distribution that looks so normal that even experts can't see the difference? And beyond looks, it's a curve that is both prevalent in nature and likely to cause false negatives when testing hypotheses.

Interactive notebook app: https://deepnote.com/workspace/allan-campopiano-4ca00e1d-f4d4-44a2-bcfe-b2a17a031bc6/project/robust-stats-simulator-7c7b8650-9f18-4df2-80be-e84ce201a2ff/notebook/notebook-d33fc4dd05304e8c8bca8d6e2a8ca3c9

🐍 Hypothesize (robust statistics library for Python): https://github.com/Alcampopiano/hypothesize