Typically, if height was heavy-tailed, we would expect the tallest person to be more than twice as big as the second tallest person.
Not necessarily. You can have fat tails without having them being that fat. In the history of the normal distribution some scientist was studying human height and his test subjects did were normal distributed.
It however happens to be the case that dwarfism happens more then the normal distribution would predict.
Height is strongly genomically driven. Currently we can predict it with +-4cm based on genetic analysis. You have a bunch of different genes that cause small changes in height and if those genes would be all that matters for height differences, height would be normally distributed the way the outcome of 1000 coin flips is normally distributed. Dwarfism however isn’t the result of a bunch of small changes of height from a bunch of different genes but can be caused through a single mutation.
Not necessarily. You can have fat tails without having them being that fat. In the history of the normal distribution some scientist was studying human height and his test subjects did were normal distributed.
It however happens to be the case that dwarfism happens more then the normal distribution would predict.
Height is strongly genomically driven. Currently we can predict it with +-4cm based on genetic analysis. You have a bunch of different genes that cause small changes in height and if those genes would be all that matters for height differences, height would be normally distributed the way the outcome of 1000 coin flips is normally distributed. Dwarfism however isn’t the result of a bunch of small changes of height from a bunch of different genes but can be caused through a single mutation.