Sentences with phrase «as a bell curve»

«We discovered that there is — and, surprisingly, the variation in how branches are distributed in space can be described mathematically by something called a Gaussian function, which is also known as a bell curve.»

May 3, 2012 • For decades, teachers, managers and parents have assumed that the performance of students and employees fits what's known as the bell curve — in most activities, we expect a few people to be very good, a few people to be very bad and most people to be average.

«If you see human potential as a bell curve and there are only some kids who are going to be great and most kids are mediocre, then engagement really wouldn't matter,» Rose says.

The extended performance Morningstar Rating for this fund does not affect the retail fund data published by Morningstar, as the bell curve distribution on which the ratings are based includes only funds with actual returns.

But if we plot it as a bell curve we can bracket the answers.

Not exact matches

Rising prices for assets seem to make most people better off, unless they are renters, or ethnic minorities, or immigrants, or come from large families and don't inherit a home of their own, or get sick and need to pay for medical care, or get fired, or get their pension fund ripped off or otherwise fall outside what most people think of as the bell - shaped curve of good fortune.

The majority of mankind has always comfortably sat in the hump of the bell curve, carried along by the extremes as they have their tug - of - war.

During the pepper harvest in the autumn, the open - air food markets are a riot of color: bright green, red, and yellow bells; deep - red cherry peppers; large tomato peppers from pale yellow and pale green to darkest red; green and scarlet peppers like Anaheims and New Mexicans; yellow Hungarian wax peppers; long curved red and green peppers similar to cayennes; shorter, thicker ones like Italian pepperoncini; and small, thin, pointed dark green and red peppers as flaming hot as those from Thailand.

We want someone to come in and really look, really listen, and then respond to us as individuals, not numbers on a bell curve.

It's not a bell curve though; Easy posteriors are not as many as challenging ones.

If you're on either end of the bell curve when it comes to height (short or tall), then you'll need an adjustable handlebar to be as comfortable as possible.

Simon Kuznets, the Nobel prize - winning economist more famous for his work on measuring gross domestic product, theorised that most economies would follow what became known as the Kuznets curve: a roughly bell curve - shaped pattern that reflected inequality rising as people left farms to work in factories, then falling as they demanded governments redistribute the benefits of industrialisation.

And more importantly, he's way down on the bell curve when it comes to his voting record; he's rated as the 15th - worst member across our state's 213 senators and assemblymembers by EPL / Environmental Advocates 2015 and 2016 scorecards.

If big blackouts were just a random, unlucky confluence of many small failures, as grid planners and operators believed, a major grid collapse would occur only once in a thousand years or so, showing up as the slim tail on a bell curve.

Additionally, researchers saw that the water depletion rates for each state in the High Plains Aquifer follow a similar bell - shaped curve pattern as the one for oil depletion in the U.S. modeled by the Hubbert peak theory.

But fitting data to probability distributions, such as the familiar bell curve, is just as common.

As conventional lab ranges are based on a bell curve analysis of all of the population that visited the lab over a certain period of time, many of whom are sick, this has lead to an ever - broadening reference range.

Nevertheless, both parts of the sternocostal head display similar moment arm length to joint range of motion curves that appear as a bell - curve shape that peaks near the middle of shoulder abduction range of motion.

Match.com, Christian Mingle, and Christian Café have a slightly larger learning curve because they come with more search options, chat features, as well as other bells and whistles.

(This statistical variation is commonly known as a «bell curve.»)

We also can combat other forces that lower the confidence of children of color in their academic ability and their worth, such as the pervasive belief in this country in the bell curve of ability, school practices for tracking, disproportionate placement in special education, biased application of discipline procedures, and unequal access to Advanced Placement classes.

Also decades ago, it was decided that certain conventions would be used as the primary means of reporting student proficiency in mathematics: percentiles, age - based bell curves, percentages of correct answers, and distilling a student's entire mathematical proficiency down to a single percentage, number, or letter.

Educators seeking to reform grading must combat five long - held traditions that stand as formidable obstacles to change: (1) Grades should provide the basis for differentiating students; (2) grade distributions should resemble a bell - shaped curve; (3) grades should be based on students» standing among classmates; (4) poor grades prompt students to try harder; and (5) students should receive one grade for each subject or course.

A typical bell curve shows that 20 percent receive As (because they know the system), 20 percent fail (because they didn't complete the worksheets or review for the test), and 60 percent land somewhere in the middle (because they know how to do just enough to get by).

Traditional grading is easily converted to credits or Carnegie Units, and whether results are recorded as points or letter grade, traditional grading is easy to see on a bell curve.

Even William Sanders, a researcher known as the «grandfather of value - added,» is concerned about the bell - shaped curve of the ratings generated by systems in New York City and elsewhere.

VAM - based scores can be easily constructed and manufactured by those charged with constructing such figures and graphs, also because tests themselves are also constructed to fit normal curves; hence, it is actually quite easy to distribute such scores around a bell curve, even if the data do not look nearly as clean from the beginning (they never do) and even if these figures do not reflect reality.

«Every district is the same; it's an upside - down bell curve, with preschool and kindergarten having the highest percentage of absences on one side, a trend downward into fourth and fifth grade, and then absences pick up again as students go through middle school and high school.»

The system — also referred to as «the performance model,» «the bell curve,» or just «the employee review» — has, with certain variations over the years, worked like this: every unit was forced to declare a certain percentage of employees as top performers, then good performers, then average, then below average, then poor.

It's an interesting bell curve, as you can see publisher attendance and announcements seem to wax and wane with the market.

And given that you misused the term in your second post (if we use the mean on a bell curve then it means that half of the authors would sell more and half of the authors would sell less -LCB- unless we assume bias -RCB-, not «most would sell more» as you asserted), then you probably shouldn't pound too much on your authority in the topic.

The normal distribution is often referred to as the Gaussian distribution or Gaussian bell curve after the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.

Without costs, index funds are going to run about average as depicted in the nice bell shape curve listed in a previous post.

As Benoit Mandelbrot and Nassim Nicholas Taleb note in «How The Finance Gurus Get Risk All Wrong» (Fortune, 2005), bell curves were adopted for mathematical convenience, not realism.

The breed as a whole will form a «bell curve» distribution because there are relatively few individuals at either extreme.

Some see favor its numbered entries as a perfect bell curve, while other see a 45 degree angle to the top (or bottom).

Cliff, The concept of sigma as it relates to a bell curve is not a difficult concept.

At any rate the bell curve is long, (and we really do not know where we are on it with regard to fossil fuels) and takes decades to impact in a major way especially as new reserves with new technologies continue to come to the fore.

I am not sure SC24 cycle max will be recorded in Nov 2014, this cycle is not like a usual bell curve of most cycles so perhaps now is the time of cycle max as the poles are reversing.

Unfortunately, what we determined that the supposed «normal» distribution of weather data using long period data like 50 and 100 year thermometer measurements produced what is known as a FAT TAIL distribution... Imagine the classical bell curve sitting on top of a rectangle laying on its side.

Taleb gets into discussion of statistics, pointing out some common misconceptions about the bell curve and randomness in real life as well as difficulties in parameterization in models.

It is commonly assumed that this variability can be approximated as a normal (Gaussian) distribution, the so - called bell curve.

In my experience as a family law lawyer, however, it has seemed to me that the bell curve modeling the impact of legislation on my clients has perhaps a higher standard of deviation than the norm, giving the bell curve a greater population at the extremes and thus fatter tails than suggested by the normal distribution; in other words, my impression is that quite a bit more than 5 % of separating couples experience an unfair or very unfair result from the application of family law legislation.

From such bell curves, Jaar claims firms can determine fixed fees, including builtin margins of error, that remain true for as long as the underlying assumptions remain the same.

Your coverage is shaped like a bell curve: When you're young you have few financial obligations and expenses, but those grow as you have kids and buy a home.

As shown in the following chart: A review of all 80 rolling 15 - year periods and all 75 rolling 20 - year periods yields similar results, with a gradually narrowing bell curve of data points coalescing around a fairly static average number.

As Lynch says, «Gamification, badges and levels are interesting, but the people in the middle of the bell curve are driven by the real reward.»

«Thanks to near - perfect market information -LSB-...] the bell curve, once useful as a model of product adoption, has lost its value as a planning tool,» say Larry Downes and Paul Nunes.

In this system, managers must rank employee performance along a bell curve and a certain percentage of employees must be ranked as the lowest performers which could lead to termination.

So long as one understands thresholds and bell curves — and how to interpret information on charts and graphs — and use the averaging information to show variables in a general sense, showing market ups and downs, then of course one could say, generally speaking that it might be more appropriate to buy in one locale as opposed to another.