Nevertheless, there「s a bell curve for all things involving people, which means there are few really bad bosses, few really good bosses, and most of you fall somewhere in the middle.
无论如何,任何事物都存在一条钟型曲线,包括人在内,这意味着的确存在着少量的坏老板,少量的好老板,而你们中的大多数都属于那中间的部分。
The bell curve distribution for IQ scores tells us that two thirds of the world’s population have an IQ somewhere between 85 and 115.
IQ分数的正态分布图告诉我们世界上三分二的人智力在85-115之间。
「These figures are always reported as shocking,」 notes Shirky, as if anything but a nice bell curve were an aberration, but Pareto distributions pop up all over.
「所报道的这些数字总是很惊人,」舍基表示,除了正态分布的钟形曲线没有偏差,差异无处不在,帕累托分布的现象到处都有。
A normal distribution is the classic bell curve that appears so frequently in statistics.
正态分布是典型的钟形曲线,这在统计学中经常出现。
But financial history is littered with bubbles and crashes, demonstrating that extreme events or so-called 「fat tails」 occur far more often than the bell curve predicts.
但金融史中充斥着泡沫和崩盘,也就是说,极端事件(即所谓的「肥尾」)发生的频率要远大于钟形曲线所预计的。
Whether in an individual coal pit, oil, or gas field, a nation or the planet as a whole, fossil fuel reserves and production tend to follow a bell curve over time.
无论是在个别的煤矿、石油或天然气场、一个国家或整个地球,矿物燃料储量和生产随着时间的推移,往往遵循钟形曲线。
Everything conforms to a bell curve and establishing the relevant performance bell curve for an industry is a big part of providing transparency.
世间万物都遵循钟形曲线的规律,对于一个行业来说,确定相应的业绩钟形曲线很大程度上也就提供了透明度。
Tom Gerds said pet owners mirror the bell curve of household demographics.
汤姆说宠物主折射出家庭人口统计特征的钟形曲线(译注:正态分布曲线)。
It is the bell curve to which investors are referring when they talk about a 「nine standard deviation event」.
当投资者们谈及所谓「九个标準差事件」时,他们实际上在说钟形曲线。
In any organisation there」s a bell curve of people「s abilities, and we know that a small but significant number of people will be at the wrong end of it.
在任何组织中,人们能力总是会构成一条钟形曲线[注1],我们知道有少数非常杰出的人会被错误对待,导致他们处于钟形曲线错误的一端。
By 2050 it will have fallen below 50m, forming an almost perfect bell curve in one century.
到2050年将会跌至5000万,一个世纪的时间形成一幅几乎完美的钟形曲线。
India is like China in 2001, says Ms Vittal. 「After two decades of systemic growth, the whole bell curve of income distribution moves to the right.」
维塔尔表示,当前的印度和2001年时的中国差不多。「经过20年的全面增长,收入分布的正态曲线整体右移。」
As the fat part of the bell curve of income inequality moves beyond the middle-class threshold, huge Numbers are lifted out of poverty. Yet many of them are still perilously close to the borderline.
收入不平等的正态分布曲线最大的一部分从中产阶级底线中移开,由此,大量中产阶级摆脱了贫困,尽管如此,十分靠近边界的也不在少数。
Now let」s contrast our bell curve of intermediates with the way that software is developed.
现在,让我们对比一下中间用户在正态分布曲线上的位置,以及为其开发软件的方式。