Sentences with phrase «tail on a bell curve»

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.

Not exact matches

And those sitting firmly on the right tail of the bell curve know that everyone to their left are utterly and hopelessly stupid.

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.

It seems that human survival now depends on a struggle between the two tails of the intelligence bell curve.

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.

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.

However, if you think of all possible deals, they probably follow a bell shaped distribution curve and this is probably in the tail end of the curve (on the profitable side).