Edit: source with some more info
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-family.html
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Acceptable in the statistical sense. Normality is required by a lot of statistical tests, so it's done a lot. There are better ways to do it without losing important insights though, hence what I said later in that paragraph.