⁴ It would be a grave mistake, of course, to interpret the Central Limit Theorem—or the ubiquity of the normal distribution—as some kind of irrefragable law of the universe that expresses how things should be in a deterministic sense. The “moralization” of the bell curve in this way has been a part of some of the most appalling social theories in the history of the world. Damn lies are one thing; dangerous pseudo-scientific nonsense is another.