Such remarks simply prove that market patterns do not fit the bell curve at all.
The bell curve of human foibles will keep its shape even after 10-mbps cable modems take over our homes.
Mr. GLADWELL: The bell curve is kind of permanently imprinted in our brain.
Guys and gals on the far right of the bell curve are fleeing like Olympic sprinters to the new economy.
We've learned that great entrepreneurs, even when capital is free, are found only at the far right end of the bell curve.
The median is nothing more than a point on the bell curve.
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But we may now be at the apex of this trend, and already sliding down the other side of the bell curve.
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So anyone boasting of 20% returns over the long periods would be in rare company wayyyy out there on the extreme right part of the Bell Curve of market players.
In the 1890s, when he was a doctoral student, Swiss economist Pareto found that the distribution of wealth and income in France deviated from the bell curve in a unique way.
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Both buyers and sellers then have the parameters to agree on a fair price, which Painter says typically settles in the lowest quartile of all transactions (the left side of the bell curve) compared to the lowest 6 percent of transactions before the change.
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Writing in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne, Mr. Taleb divides the world into those who "get it" and everyone else, a world partitioned into heroes (Popper, Hayek, Yogi Berra), those on notice (Harold Bloom, necktie wearers, personal-finance advisers) and entities that are dead to him (the bell curve, newspapers, the Nobel Prize in Economics).
Perhaps, Wolf suggests, the two tails of the alleged bell curve are fatter than we thought.
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With the Laramie Longhorn Crew Cab 4x4, we are at the extreme right of the price bell curve, and it's illustrative of just how much range is required of auto makers' half-ton offerings.
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In the standard bell-curve, you will recall, mode, median and mean are all the same.
In other words, VAR said how much money a bank could lose in a single day IF mortgage borrowers behaved the way they had in the past and the world stayed within the 95% of the bell-shaped curve it normally occupies.
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Noted mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss gave us the normal distribution or bell curve.
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This non-linear tendency is why complex systems are more likely to follow a power-law probability distribution than the more familiar bell-curve distribution.
This suggests that the familiar bell-shaped curve reflects no immutable law, and that intelligent government policies might well help to reduce pollution levels even while countries are still relatively poor.
Poll investors, amateur or professional, about the future and you will likely get a neatly-shaped bell curve of expected outcomes, with most respondents herding toward the perceived safety of the middle ground.
These transactions are posted on a bell curve, displaying the percentage of sales in four price ranges: below market, great, good, and above market.
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You could go crazy trying to graph the net worth of Americans on a bell curve.
The demographics of the attendees does not fit any normal bell curve.
Since small deviations are common and large ones are rare, the result of plotting data in this way is a curve shaped somewhat like the cross-section of a bell.
How lucky, then, for young Burnham to be alive in the 1990s and possessed of an extremely rightward Bell Curve IQ.
In a bell-curve distribution of probabilities, the range of possible events are clumped together around the average.
The other problem is that having sufficient data to draw a proper curve, bell shaped or otherwise.
If you pick up all the temperature data points in the sky map and put them in histogram, you should get a nice bell curve.
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