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 ...

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 ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Khadija Khartit is a strategy, investment, and funding expert, and an educator of fintech and strategic finance ...

Gaussian curves, normal curves and bell curves are synonymous. Each represents how statistical data with normal distribution plots on a graph. Normal distribution describes a particular way statistics ...

There is a long standing belief in business that people performance follows the Bell Curve (also called the Normal Distribution). This belief has been embedded in many business practices: performance ...

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 ...

Grading on a curve isn't just for college papers--many companies use numeric performance reviews and then fit employees to a bell curve. Unlike school, however, an employee's rating can determine ...

To teach you the process of making a bell curve in Excel, I have taken sample data of 10 students’ marks in a particular subject. The marks are out of 100. You can calculate the average in any cell, I ...

Though our press and politicians tend to portray us as a country divided, I'm confident that this is not the case. To reach this conclusion, I began looking at the media and politics from the ...

The IQ bell curve meme, also referred to as the “midwit” meme, makes use of a graph representation of the probability theory of normal distribution. This graph, commonly known as the “bell curve” for ...