bell curve

[bel kurv]

noun

Statistics.

1. a frequency curve that resembles the outline of a bell, such as the normal curve.

   The function is balanced, meaning that the distribution of index values typically follows a bell curve, not a flat linear distribution.

bell curve

1. A symmetrical bell-shaped curve that represents the distribution of values, frequencies, or probabilities of a set of data. It slopes downward from a point in the middle corresponding to the mean value, or the maximum probability. Data that reflect the aggregate outcome of large numbers of unrelated events tend to result in bell curve distributions.

2. ◆ The Gaussian or normal distribution is a mathematically well-defined bell curve used in statistics and in science generally.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bell curve¹

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

On that summer evening, it hosted a talk on how to prevent crime on the city’s subways by a researcher at the Manhattan Institute, the house think tank of New York City’s conservative elite, which is probably best known as the incubator for ideologues like Charles Murray, the author of “The Bell Curve,” and Christopher Rufo, who helped instigate the moral panic around critical race theory.

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It’s Charles Murray’s 1994 pseudo-scientific Bell Curve dressed up in high-flown pseudo-philosophy.

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“The Bell Curve” implicitly rejected all of them, arguing against engaging in any argument at all.

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"The Bell Curve" doesn't call for Black people to be enslaved, but it does suggest that they might be kept fenced into high tech "reservations" for people who are too weak-minded to do work.

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I think if we acknowledge that this is a psyop, rather than a reasonable policy document, it becomes very obvious that "The Bell Curve" is dealing in mythology rather than science.

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