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[\ref{fig:elnino_samples} \ref{fig:example_distributions}].   Looking at a multitude of different figures and interpretations often leads people to ask "well, which one's right?". Here,  if you trust my calculations\footnote{Which is never a safe assumption.}, they are all right. Just right, just  the answers to very specific questions. It's often lamented that "computers are difficult to work with, not because they don't do what you tell them, but  because they do \emph{exactly} what you tell them." The same is true with maths. Often the most difficult part of science isn't   obtaining results, it's figuring out what we're really \href{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aboZctrHfK8}{asking}.