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unusual facts about Bell curve


Bell curve

A Gaussian function, a specific kind of function whose graph is a bell-shaped curve


Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery

The AFQT has been used in non-military settings as a proxy measure of intelligence, for example, Herrnstein & Murray's Bell curve report.

Edentulism

What initially began as a sort of tall, broad, bell curve-shaped ridge (in the faciolingual dimension) eventually becomes a short, narrow, stumpy sort of what doesn't even appear to be a ridge.

Kees Posthumus

Put differently: the academic requirements adjust themselves to the bell curve.

Mankind Quarterly

During the "Bell Curve wars" of the 1990s, the journal received attention when opponents of The Bell Curve publicized the fact that some of the works cited by Bell Curve authors Herrnstein and Murray had first been published in Mankind Quarterly.


see also

Hubbert peak theory

Wood: The trees on Easter Island were a renewable resource but all were cut down in the 17th century, following the Hubbert bell curve, but could be restored.

Normal law

Normal distribution and the Gaussian law(s) relating to the bell curve