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Yes, on your scale it appears that is the case. Most definitions I've seen have a -3 constant to zero out the normal, but if you say that's weird I won't argue. Incidentally, why didn't you extend the kurtosis scale to allow for a platykurtic distribution?

EDIT: to the original question, I'm not suggesting the distributions should have different scales, but rather that the scale of both should be static.




It's about fat tails, which is probably why it doesn't include platykurtic distributions.




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