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 ...

Andrew Bloomenthal has 20+ years of editorial experience as a financial journalist and as a financial services marketing writer. Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced ...

In April, I recorded an interview of almost two and a half hours with Sam Harris for his Waking Up podcast which, I learned only after I had done it, regularly attracts a few million listeners. We ...

I can only recognize the occurrence of the normal curve … as a very abnormal phenomenon. — Karl Pearson (1901) Widely believed and rarely questioned is the notion that human characteristics, including ...

Does your organization grade on a curve? In other words, now that we’re approaching the end of the calendar year, does your employee assessment process force you to produce a bell curve with roughly ...

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 tapering ...