At 8:46 AM -0600 12/2/99, Jean Edwards wrote:
>Hi Tipsters:
>
>Statistics (and any math for that matter) is not one of my strong points but
>doesn't the normal curve phenomenon apply to large numbers of people?
At best, and only if they're randomly sampled.
I would guess that a class population is both truncated and skewed.
I'd have trouble justifying its use in classes of less than several hundred.
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