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¿Question #2975?
meshuggener: Fifteen Words of Less: Explain the Bell Curve.

Woelf: This "question" has a lot of issues. Google it yourself.
BOBBYCAN: The high, round part represents people who us a question mark. The low parts represent yellow card allocation.
pwilz: Murray believes that government programs are doomed to fail because poor people are stupid.
pricero1: Draw a bell in profile view - that's a bell curve.
Narlgoth: Fifteen Words of Less sounds like the English teacher version of Fifty Shades of Grey.
marphod: Horizontally symmetric; 0 peak; concave peak; convex, long tail.
nordloc: Some guys are tall, some are small, most are in-between. That's normal.
Felimid: It swoops up, it swoops down.
Mylantus: Narrow at both ends and high in the middle
DasViktor: A statistical model showing the distribution of an attribute related to its averages. How's that?
mugs: Small on the ends, big in the middle
gmonk: parabolic curve defining a standard distribution with its range centred on the mean value.
Nikku: Bellshaped curve in which 68% and 95% equal 1x and 2x the standard deviation respectively.
ozjesting: it goes up to a point than comes down...then you are failed.
Boot2daHead: Symmetrical curve representing the distribution of values, frequencies, or probabilities of a set of data.
chockle: A group's answers will focus around a median, with less at the extremes.
Der Ubermolch: Few things are extraordinary, most are average or near-average. That's nine. I want compensation for the six I didn't use.
Bottlesorter: Imagine the plot of how much fun you have with your longterm partner, over a month.
DHEK: A curve that's shaped like a bell.
Butterbane: This fantastic device that gave me A++++++'s in high school while bringing my classmates up to a D-!
Captain Coconut: When numbers appear more often closer to, and less often further from the median.
Greedo: George Bell was an OUTFIELDER, not a PITCHER... so he didn't throw curves.... Ya big dummy!
Numskull: No.
GrimJester: Hefner Curve without a nipple.
Chris Page: The sum of multiple evenly-distributed random variables is a non-evenly distributed random variable. (You didn't say which language the words had to be in.)
ZiggyZambo: ,,..--``--..,,
brainrob: Ding Dong
vampywife: it's fitting everyone into a nice symmetrical average
BLSchoose: losers on the left, winners on the right
bluebehir: Most mass gravitates toward the general centre.
Shotmagnet: it goes up, then comes down, symmetrically
Gizensha: The curve of a normal distribution (eg number of heads when flipping a coin)
Frankenfletch: I'm not in school thank you.
JackRandom: it's a curve, shaped like a bell
Stephen Glenn: I couldn't possibly do it in less than thirty-seven words.
POvidiusNaso: Small edges, big middle. Like Babe Ruth.
dietevil: freaks on one side, freaks on other side, boring masses in between
Yollege: big curve, shaped like a bell.
puffinge: more near the middle gradually tapering toward the ends
Null Signature: Forty-two
Legend Dan: Curve shaped like a bell.
cobra: its a curve shaped like a bell
djlg: A curve shaped like a bell. For example, a normal distribution caused by a random process.
sourwyrm: this isn't stats class
arkibet: avg distribution of probable outcome.
hibikir: y= (e^(-x^2/2)/sqrt(2*pi)
rdmasters: The more likely, the closer to the middle. Further from the middle, less likely.
ssmooth: By giving shape to the sound waves, the tone resonates and becomes richer.
lwheeler: The bell curve is the rescaled limit of the binomial distribution
MisterCranky: Standard distribution with lovely shape and fine narrow tails.
familygaming: I've never actually found out what a bell curve is.
2amp: averaging pattern for random distribution of a series of events
nouge: less less less less less less less less less less less less less less less
ValJor: Fifteen words? I can't explain even a Bell line in fifteen words!
heli: nothing like the Laffer curve
Lord_Prussian: Less less less less. Less less less less less less. Less Less less less less.
skelebone: Controversial book that said white people are better than others.
Randy Cox: Only so many people can be really pretty/smart/ugly/dumb; all else same
chaddyboy_2000: It's a curve that looks like a bell.
snoozefest: data tends to distribute around an average value, with decreasing frequency farther from the average
Spielfreak: A standard distribution where most values are in the middle with fewer towards the extremes
CDRodeffer: Under "normal" conditions, most stuff falls close to the average. But there are exceptions.
Tim Synge: The Bell Curve is a curve that, to some observers, is shaped like a bell.
jttm: Its a curve in the shape of a bell