Statistical infrequency

Cards (2)

  • What is statistically infrequent behaviour?
    A behaviour that does not happen very often and are on the extreme sides of the bell curve
  • Statistical infrequency evaluation:
    + real life application: intellectual disorders are infrequent and abnormal
    - not all statistically infrequent traits are bad: high IQ is desirable
    - some disorders are more frequent such as depression, which affects over a quarter of people