Not the most glaring issue with #JurassicPark, but this plot from Michael Crichton's original 1990 novel looks pretty darn weird. /1 pic.twitter.com/8dQujwIVNf
— David Gerard (@EmpiricalDave) November 29, 2018
Not the most glaring issue with #JurassicPark, but this plot from Michael Crichton's original 1990 novel looks pretty darn weird. /1 pic.twitter.com/8dQujwIVNf
— David Gerard (@EmpiricalDave) November 29, 2018
However, the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park weren't supposed to be a "natural population" --- their breeding was controlled. So this bell curve was used as a clue that the dinosaurs were mating. /3
— David Gerard (@EmpiricalDave) November 29, 2018
I simulated some dino-heights from a real Gaussian distribution and rounded these heights to the nearest centimeter. I did this a bunch of different times so you can get a feel of what height distributions we would expect to see. /7 pic.twitter.com/RKMegdA1MK
— David Gerard (@EmpiricalDave) November 29, 2018