Psychology Today

Let’s Take the Bell Curve Away from the Classroom

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 ...
Wired

The Shape of Things to Come

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 ...
Psychology Today

Let’s Take the Bell Curve Away from the Classroom

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 ...