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 ...

The normal distribution is pretty cool. It’s a mathematically determined probability distribution that does a good job of describing the patterns of variability between scores for many variables in ...

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 ...

Who said it can't happen here? / Joe L. Kincheloe and Shirley R. Steinberg -- Dominance and dependency: situating The Bell Curve within the conservative restoration / Michael W. Apple -- Bell Curve ...

Scott Denning has received funding from NASA, NOAA, the US Department of Energy, and the National Science Foundation. Like so many things, temperature statistics follow a bell curve – mathematicians ...

Countries’ commitments to reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2) emissions can have important implications for their economies. Data since the 1800s reveal that the amount of CO 2 emissions generated for a ...