bell-shaped curve
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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 • Apr. 27, 2022
“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 • Apr. 27, 2020
Roenneberg has collected data from 300,000 people and found that chronotypes plot as a bell-shaped curve, with a few individuals at each extreme and most falling somewhere in the middle.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 2, 2019
Dr. Roenneberg has collected data from 300,000 people and found that chronotypes plot as a bell-shaped curve, with a few individuals at each extreme and most falling somewhere in the middle.
From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2018
They do not end up in the “classic” bell-shaped curve Siraj and I were expecting.
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
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