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Small-Scale Question Sunday for March 17, 2024

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The proper comparison isn't between the happiness of the average man and the average woman, but of those truly miserable how many are men.

If happiness of men and happiness of women both follow the normal distribution with average happiness of men and women being equal, but happiness of women having a smaller variance, the number of men below any value smaller than the mean, will be greater than the number of women below the same value.

Good point!