Anyone familiar with basic statistics is familiar with the concept of a bell curve. A bell curve is a visual representation of normal data distribution, in which the median represents the highest ...

Grading on a curve isn't just for college papers--many companies use numeric performance reviews and then fit employees to a bell curve. Unlike school, however, an employee's rating can determine ...

Gaussian curves, normal curves and bell curves are synonymous. Each represents how statistical data with normal distribution plots on a graph. Normal distribution describes a particular way statistics ...

Imagine that the labels “morally courageous” and “intellectually honest” didn’t refer to inner personal qualities but instead were prizes in a language game. The goal of the game is to be awarded the ...

I’m sorry that if talking about hockey analytics bores you so much that you’ve immediately unbookmarked this site and thrown your laptop into the trash so you never need to risk seeing someone mention ...

I can only recognize the occurrence of the normal curve … as a very abnormal phenomenon. — Karl Pearson (1901) Widely believed and rarely questioned is the notion that human characteristics, including ...

There seems to be a great deal of outrage that Casey Anthony was found not guilty. Yet, one must keep in perspective that for every person who is guilty of committing a crime and found not guilty, ...

A bell curve is a graph used to visualize the distribution of a set of chosen values across a specified group that tend to have central, normal values that peak, with low and high extremes tapering ...