Histogram of pixel values for the unnormalized lensing estimate for the MV reconstruction, in units of the standard deviation of the map. A Gaussian with σ = 1 is overplotted in black. Note that the y-axis is logarithmic. The left column shows the histogram for the data itself, while the right column shows a simulated reconstruction. The reconstructed map is slightly non-Gaussian, but in a way that is expected from simulations given the non-Gaussian nature of the quadratic lensing estimator.