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== IID consistency ==

After noticing the lead contained a mixture of both, I made a bold edit in favour of IID which I personally find less visually distracting than the dots in i.i.d. when the term is dropped into every second sentence. However, IID is not exactly beautiful, either, and typographically I would advise {{sc2|IID}} (i.e. <ttcode><nowiki>{{sc2|IID}}</nowiki></ttcode>), except that this is apparently discouraged in the MOS. This article might the one where it makes sense to go against the recommended-style grain, though it's above my pay grade to decide this unilaterally. &mdash; [[user:MaxEnt|MaxEnt]] 00:57, 20 March 2017 (UTC)

:Your decision has my support, since dropping the [[full stops]] (or ''periods'') from [[initialism]]s (and other [[abbreviations]]) has been throughout the last century or more, and continues to be, a productive process in English writing, as seen in the following usages, for example: