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bell curve
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bell curve - normal distribution

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While a system of academic standards may not be the perfect system to check the power of low expectations, fragmented curriculum and bell-curve testing, it is far better than the alternative of unchecked and destructive low expectations.
By assuming that conventional bell-curve statistics apply, investors have unwittingly stacked the deck against themselves.
Shermer tries, of course, to dissuade his fellow test takers from believing that any results above chance indicate ESP by explaining bell-curve probability distributions.
 
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