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bell-shaped curve

[bel-shaypt kurv] / ˈbɛlˌʃeɪpt ˌkɜrv /
NOUN
bell curve
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The 328 senators of the previous 50 years have illustrated the tyranny of the bell-shaped curve: a few of them dreadful, a few excellent, most mediocre.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 27, 2022

“It’s a bell-shaped curve, with some people getting sick for just a few days and others having symptoms that last longer than two weeks,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2020

Roenneberg has collected data from 300,000 people and found that chronotypes plot as a bell-shaped curve, with a few individuals at each extreme and most falling somewhere in the middle.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 2019

Dr. Roenneberg has collected data from 300,000 people and found that chronotypes plot as a bell-shaped curve, with a few individuals at each extreme and most falling somewhere in the middle.

From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2018

The normal bell-shaped curve seems to describe many phenomena in nature.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos


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