Christmas season is as good a time as ever to remind you that a probability distribution has two tails.

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As the Bank and Mr Wallis both say, there are many ways to illustrate the same underlying probability distribution.

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This non-linear tendency is why complex systems are more likely to follow a power-law probability distribution than the more familiar bell-curve distribution.

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