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Anime is hand-drawn and computer animation originating from Japan.

Anime; the one thing that gets us closer to each other and brings us together.

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[–] Scholars_Mate 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Normal distribution with regards to what? "Do you watch anime weekly" is a binary question. There really isn't a distribution associated with that.

[–] SatouKazuma 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wouldn't that be a binomial distribution then?

[–] Scholars_Mate 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's been a while since I took statistics, but yes, I guess that is a binomial distribution. It does not influence the results in the way you are implying it does, though. The calculator does actually account for it (the Population Proportion input), and the sample size actually decreases the lower/higher your proportion is. My point was that a question like, "Do you watch anime weekly," is not like a question like, "How many hours of anime do you watch in a week," where you certainly couldn't assume a normal distribution for the number of hours watched.

[–] SatouKazuma 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah I didn't look at the exact questions. My bad.