The bell curve tells you nothing. It creates commensurability only. Once you pro

The bell curve tells you nothing. It creates commensurability only. Once you produce a distribution, it’s the DEVIATIONS from that distribution that provide us with new knowledge.

Whenever someone refers to a distribution, is he or she testifying that individuals tend to distribute in this fashion so that as a set of individuals we see this general trend as a consequence? in other words, are they talking about the aggregate effect of the set or are they talking about the cause of the distribution?

The reason we can make use of distributions is so that we can seek outliers to determine the cause of the set through falsification.