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To: PiMac who wrote (33255)	3/24/1999 4:33:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Surely not every normal curve. The normal curve emerges from the summation of random causes. The log-normal curve results from the summation of the logs of random causes -- i.e. cumulative multiplicative processes. A high IQ tends to multiply the effect of an ample inheritance, a charming personality, and personal beauty, and a good outside shot. It seems that "genius" , leadership, earnings, wealth, etc. are distributed log-normally. We don't have many poor people with minus $70 billion wealth to balance Gates in the wealth distribution.