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 ...

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 ...

Imagine you're at a fair, and you see a booth with a giant dartboard. The booth owner challenges you to hit the bullseye. You take your shot, and the dart lands somewhere on the board. Now imagine ...

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 ...