{"id":11631,"date":"2012-05-06T05:21:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T10:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11631"},"modified":"2012-05-06T05:21:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-06T10:21:18","slug":"doctor-obvious-meets-abbie-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11631","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Obvious Meets Abbie Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/05\/03\/151860154\/put-away-the-bell-curve-most-of-us-arent-average\">Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren&#8217;t &#8216;Average&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For decades, teachers, managers and parents have assumed that the performance of students and employees fits what&#8217;s known as the bell curve \u2014 in most activities, we expect a few people to be very good, a few people to be very bad and most people to be average.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/864\">This isn&#8217;t the first time<\/a> I&#8217;ve found that someone is shocked, shocked to find that you have non-normal distributions after you&#8217;ve run your sample through some kind of discriminator.  Managers don&#8217;t tend to hire the unqualified.  Students that aren&#8217;t college material tend not to go to college, or drop out.  If you aren&#8217;t good enough to be competitive at a sport you won&#8217;t be on the team.  Once you have limited your sample in a way that introduces a bias, don&#8217;t automatically expect the distribution to be normal.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Put Away The Bell Curve: Most Of Us Aren&#8217;t &#8216;Average&#8217; For decades, teachers, managers and parents have assumed that the performance of students and employees fits what&#8217;s known as the bell curve \u2014 in most activities, we expect a few &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11631\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}