Distribution of the amplitude of the position-dependent variance dipole (using disks of 4° radius) in the Planck PR4 CMB temperature data illustrating the hemispherical asymmetry anomaly. The orange and blue vertical lines correspond to the observed SEVEM and Commander maps, respectively, and the histograms are obtained from the corresponding 600 SEVEM (orange), and 100 Commander (blue) simulations. None of the simulated CMB maps have a large dipole amplitude value.