The Bell Curve — co-authored with Richard Herrnstein — is, after all, not a work of scientific research but rather a political book written by one of the most prominent conservative policy ...

But when I4CP asked respondents how many had a "forced distribution," a wonky H.R. term for a bell curve, it found similar numbers. Fifty-four percent used the practice in 2009, but two years ...

The constant pressure of a bell curve ranking was found to demoralize staff, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology report, Punishing by Rewards: When the Performance Bell-curve Stops Working For ...

For decades, teachers, managers and parents have assumed that the performance of students and employees fits what's known as the bell curve — in most activities, we expect a few people to be ...