Here’s a look at a couple of simple examples of data you might find on a bell curve: Employee performance tends to fall on a bell curve. Adequate employees make up the mean, while underperforming ...

As Cohn says, individual polls are likely to fall on a bell curve. I’ve recreated his chart below, with actual recent polls in blue. As you can see, it’s all perfectly normal (pun intended).

Bell curve meme spread @The4thWayYT/X. Interest in the IQ bell curve meme began to spike in 2020 as it emerged from the sewers of 4chan and into the sewers of Twitter and other social media platforms.

“It’s a bell curve,” she quickly summarized, perhaps inferring that I should limit my judgment as it was clear that age-wise I was surfing the downside of the hill.