# Why worry about bird flu?

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**Created:** [October 7, 2005, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-worry-about-bird-flu/325192 "2005-10-07T14:31:58Z")\
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> [@ElvisL1ves](#):
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> but if they’re right, the probability distribution is still bipolar and not Gaussian. One pole is near zero, not at it, sure, but the other is at 10e7 and anything in between is down in the noise.

It is quite possible that is correct. I submit that it is quite possible that we cannot determine whether the probability distribution is bipolar or Gaussian.

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