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lanstin
on March 19, 2022
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Eastern Antarctica sees record temperatures 70 deg...
Five standard deviations is not four percent, it is in the 1 in 3 Million range.
FabHK
on March 20, 2022
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Yes, for a normal, which is known to have extremely thin tails (decaying with a squared exponential!). Chebyshev's bound holds for any possible distribution (with finite variance).
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