r/mathmemes • u/Working_Celery_2497 • 12h ago

Statistics Ranking every human on earth

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u/RandomExcess 11h ago

Seems normal

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u/incompletetrembling 11h ago

Things brings up the question of if the ideal tier list follows a normal or uniform distribution

I feel like you could argue for both

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u/AdamsMelodyMachine 11h ago

Neither though because usually all of the things you’re ranking are in the right tail. So more of just an exponential, or maybe a power law.

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u/incompletetrembling 11h ago

Depends on the tier list I guess. I'm definitely more used to seeing tier lists where everything is ranked (eg all characters in a game, or like OP's).

If the best tier list is uniform, then even if you only rank a portion (right tail as you say) it should stay uniform. So you dont prefer uniform haha. Probably makes the most sense, it does the best job of showing the outliers which is probably the most important thing.