When comparing race PBs to training times without normalizing for suit and dive, the visualization has the right shape but systematically misleads. A swimmer's suited-dive PB sits 2-4% above their unsuited-no-dive training distribution—not because they're variable, but because the data isn't effort-equivalent. The Welford accumulator on raw data hides the systematic bias; the Welford on normalized data surfaces it.
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