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This is about Unix stderr, not about Gauss's Central Limit Theorem and related statistical topics.

For those interested in the origins of the standard error in statistics, "The Most Dangerous Equation" by Howard Wainer is a good, short read: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/255612702_The_Most_...

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Thanks for posting this, wonderful read. I didn’t really get the example with chromosomes (I would expect some references proving that X chromosome really does contain genes linked to the intelligence), but it was an enjoyable piece of writing.

Interestingly enough, I can’t find mention of de Moivre equation anywhere except of this article. Does anyone know its more commonly used name?

Its more commonly used name is the (formula for the) standard deviation of the sample mean.

Right, thank you!

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/253486/name-of-de-m...

As far as I can remember, Wainer doesn't really assert that the equation is known as "de Moivre's equation", that's just what he calls it in the context of his article.

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