A bell curve is a graph that shows how values in a dataset are disbursed, with most falling near the average, and fewer appearing at the extremes. It is used to understand patterns, trends ...

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 bell curve model limits the quantity of people at the top and also reduces incentives to the highest rating. Given the arbitrary five-scale rating and the fact that most people are 2,3,4 rated ...

For decades, teachers, managers and parents have assumed that the performance of students and employees fits what's known as the bell curve — in most activities, we expect a few people to be ...

To reach this conclusion, I began looking at the media and politics from the perspective of a bell curve—with the normal distribution curve being the largest in the middle and the thinnest at ...

But when I4CP asked respondents how many had a "forced distribution," a wonky H.R. term for a bell curve, it found similar numbers. Fifty-four percent used the practice in 2009, but two years ...

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 ...

If such a distribution doesn't sound like the familiar bell-shaped curve, you're right. Along the hilly slopes of the bell curve, most values -- the data points that track whatever is being ...