Sentences with phrase «based on the bell curve»

The good news is that your entry into the kingdom is not based on a bell curve of your performance or your party affiliation.

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.

I am surprised with the number of stock holdings to be around 50 based on the bell curve.

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While I've long recognised the flaws in the «bell curve» and witnessed them on an almost daily basis, I found the book a useful construct to help think about volatility and market risk.

But even more damning is that the formulation Lomborg offers now, following criticism that he muddled the point, is still not unambiguous: sometimes projected resource lifetimes are measured based on extrapolating a constant rate of growth of consumption into the future starting «from the year discussed», rather than assuming a constant consumption rate, and sometimes they are measured «from the year discussed» by assuming that the consumption rate is following a bell - shaped curve (the famous «Hubbert's pimple»).4

But, based on the fact that most eating a whole foods diet (little to no processed, prepared, or restaurant foods) ingest far less salt than realized, (and far less than what the boatload of salt most Americans ingest in the processed foods), you'll likely want to include salt to be in the optimal bell curve, and based on the autoimmune associations, I'd choose sea or Himalayan salt (and consider the need for some of that added to be iodized given the borderline deficiency for women of child - bearing age).

In contrast, the ranges most doctors use are based on a bell - curve analysis of all the people who visited that lab over a certain period of time, many of whom are very sick.

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.

These ranges are based on a standard bell curve.

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.

Imagine, say, a bell - shaped curve based on the null hypothesis that climate change is not happening (and not having an impact on increasing extreme weather events), and there is this really long tail out to infinity; and supposing we get an off - the - charts category 7 hurricane in January, we still can not attribute it or its extra intensity or unusual seasonality to climate change, even if there is only a one in kazillion chance it might occur without climate change having an effect — that is, it is way out there in the very tiny tail of this null hypothesis curve that fades out into infinity — the tail that says, afterall, anything's possible.