Jean wrote:
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?
Not always; it depends on the characteristic or behavior at hand.
Simple response times, for example, show positively skewed
distributions for samples large and small.
-Mike
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