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Think of a personal characteristic that would be normally distributed (e.g., height and shoe size). Where do you fall on the bell-curve?

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This job aligns a personal characteristic with the bell curve.

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Let us look at height. In a population on an overall basis, we can say that there is an overall average of height - 5'5 for women. 5'5 would be the number at the middle of the bell curve, the highest point. Now, people come in all different sizes, which makes up the shape of the bell curve. However, assuming that the sample is normally ...

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