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 normal distribution is pretty cool. It’s a mathematically determined probability distribution that does a good job of describing the patterns of variability between scores for many variables in ...

The bell curve, that beautiful form of regularity, is getting turned upside down. In the mid-19th century, a few of Europe's finest scientists and mathematicians noticed something peculiar about the ...

One criticism of the normal distribution is that it is over-applied and over-used. This criticism is partly based on the ideas that (a) fewer naturally occurring variables than one might believe ...