The performance rating bell curve is a problematic but workable way of avoiding the furthest extremes of spreadsheet agony. There’s an exception.

Bell curve = coolness The AP has a funny bit on CNN today about why chart-topping bands accrue so much hatred in ink. Nickelback, Hinder and Britney Spears are cited as examples.

For example: 5 percent A’s, 15 percent B’s, 60 percent C’s, 15 percent D’s and 5 percent F’s. I used the bell curve in grading nearly all of my courses at the University of Michigan ...

Back when I was a student of political science, we spent a lot of time discussing the bell curve theory of American politics. The idea was simple. Americans are supposedly arrayed along an ...

Complex, ordered patterns hidden within the ubiquitous bell-shaped curve are revealed in a new book, "Treasures Inside the Bell: Hidden Order in Chance," by Carlos Puente, a professor of hydrology at ...