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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (28417)	2/5/2003 7:17:41 AM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Maurice, why would the distribution be normal? Certainly the current distribution of income is not even close to normal, in the US at least. It is skewed downward (i.e. median < mean) with much fatter tails than a normal distribution. This is not due to the presence of the super-rich, but rather to the existence of a highly-skilled upper class and a persistently unskilled underclass. Human performance, especially at the cluster of skills that are valued in the post-industrial economy, is not normally distributed.