Summary. Most human activities as well as many disciplines — from physics and biology to linguistics, finance, and computer science — follow a Pareto distribution instead of a “normal” Gaussian curve
https://hbr.org/2022/01/we-need-to-let-go-of-the-bell-curve

Most scientific journal articles

1 Do not publish raw data

2 Use statistics tests that are designed for normal distribution instead of pareto distribution

3 Do not prove there is a normal distribution with the raw data because they do not publish it

4 Do not trust them