What is a population distribution?
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A population distribution is a curve formed by all the population's data points that occupy the space beneath the curve.
Scenario: Consider the population distribution of IQ scores below.
In the case of IQ scores, they form what's called a normal distribution. Not all distributions will look like this!
However, this "bell-curve" shaped distribution is very common in statistics, and we'll be working with it a lot.