bell-shaped curve

American  

[bel-sheypt kurv] / ˈbɛlˌʃeɪpt ˌkɜrv /

noun

Statistics.

1. a variant of bell curve.

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Example Sentences

I just always thought, “Oh, I’ll be on that smallest part of the bell-shaped curve forever and I’ll probably be kind of lonely there. And that’s just what it is in this lifetime.”

From Los Angeles Times

There's a figure in the book: There's a huge distribution of attitudes that looks like a bell-shaped curve, but the set of people who actually vote for populist parties is disproportionately on the right.

From Salon

Here the cult of the presidency invests absurd glory and expectations in that office’s occupants, who generally are mediocrities because politicians, like lawyers and plumbers and columnists, etc., produce a bell-shaped curve.

From Washington Post

The 328 senators of the previous 50 years have illustrated the tyranny of the bell-shaped curve: a few of them dreadful, a few excellent, most mediocre.

From Washington Post

“It’s a bell-shaped curve, with some people getting sick for just a few days and others having symptoms that last longer than two weeks,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times