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The heights (in inches) of men have a distribution that is approximately normal, so it appears that those heights are from a normally di tributed population. Are the logarithms of normally distributed heights also normally distributed?

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No, because the logarithmic function is not linear and thus the logarithm will change the shape of the distribution.

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