A bell curve is a graph depicting the normal distribution, which has a shape reminiscent of a bell. The top of the curve shows the mean, mode, and median of the data collected.

The shape of the normal curve, ... NetMBA: The Normal Distribution (Bell Curve) Amanda McMullen. Contributor. Amanda McMullen is a freelancer who has been writing professionally since 2010.

There is a long standing belief in business that people performance follows the Bell Curve (also called the Normal Distribution). This belief has been embedded in many business practices ...

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 ...

Height follows the bell curve in its distribution. Wealth does not: It follows an asymmetric, L-shaped pattern known as a "power law," where most values are below average and a few far above.

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 ...

Human performance, by this account, does not often fit the bell curve or what scientists call a normal distribution. Rather, it is more likely to fit what scientists call a power distribution.

In her column (Globe, Sept. 15), Esther Cepeda mentioned that a few teachers are substandard, but most are not. This is an illustration of the bell-shaped curve. In any large population such as ...