7. Mistakes to avoid

7.1 Don't believe that all phenomena are necessarily Gaussian!

The normal distribution is often used as a good and useful approximation, but it should not be assumed that all random phenomena can be modeled by such a distribution. Also, the mean and standard deviation are only summaries of a random phenomenon, and do not in themselves characterize the phenomenon. The association "mean $\mu$ standard deviation $\sigma$ In fact, "normal distribution" is misleading. For example, a uniform distribution $U\left(m,M\right)$...