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Description: If you sample from a Cauchy distribution, the probability to get a value very far on the tails is so high that more data won't ever give you a better estimate of its mean.
Title: Mean estimator consistency
Credit: https://twitter.com/j_bertolotti/status/1303999888137613312
Author: Jacopo Bertolotti
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