navidshrimpo
navidshrimpo t1_j1lp735 wrote
Reply to comment by bigsanity in [OC] Christmas Homicides in California by academiaadvice
Between any given day, the amount of murders that happen is going to fluctuate a lot due to the relative rarity of murders. If you average lots of these days, or 365 of them in the case of a year, it converges toward an average.
You can think of each day as a "sample". Lots of days is a larger sample. This convergence is explained by the central limit theorem.
navidshrimpo t1_j1lp9jc wrote
Reply to [OC] Christmas Homicides in California by academiaadvice
This says absolutely nothing other than the central limit theorem exists. Christmas is not seemingly any more or less deadly than average.