normal curve

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While in a normal curve, Super Cruise will stay closer to the inside lane line, which is how most humans drive.

From The Verge • Jul. 23, 2021

The approximation would have been less accurate, because the smaller sample size means that the data does not fit a normal curve as well.

From Textbooks • Mar. 27, 2020

Some of those with psychiatric risk—Carrie Fisher, David Foster Wallace, Kurt Cobain—turn out to illuminate reality in ways those inside the normal curve cannot.

From Time • Jan. 9, 2017

Dr. Ranjan Sudan, vice chair of education for the Duke University Department of Surgery, says the acceptance barrier is only a temporary one, apt to follow the normal curve of innovation.

From Newsweek • Apr. 11, 2015

It is significant that frequency distributions of breeding activity of various species and groups of birds take on the shape of a skewed normal curve.

From The Breeding Birds of Kansas by Johnston, Richard F.