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Six example sentences with distribution, each labelled with its topic.
Plotting the measurements gave a distribution with two clear humps, which told the team they had mixed two populations.
Science
The distribution of recovery times was skewed, so the team reported a median of nine days rather than an average.
Medicine
Players mapped the loot drops and found a distribution far flatter than the rare-item odds the studio had advertised.
Gaming
The income distribution has a long right tail, so the average earner makes far more than the typical one.
Economics
The distribution of shot distances shifted outward over a decade, with the mid-range nearly vanishing.
Basketball
Reaction times follow a skewed distribution, with a few very slow trials pulling the mean away from the median.
Psychology
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