Fredd's Bell Curve

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Future said:
First of all, the OP is referring to the shape....it literally looks like a bell so, no, its not a misapplication of the term, even if its being used differently.

Secondly, I bet $10 you didn't really know what it was and Googled it b/c nobody in their right mind actually refers to it as Gaussian. Guarantee you pulled that right from the anchor text of the second link.
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Just a caution, for those working in Math, Finance, Science, Economics, polling, stats are used everyday an it is a very common term. I would have been impressed if I could have seen kurtosis as a metphor for slope of excitement or lt letdown.

Anyway, Im just messing. No one cares about skew, kurtosis, bimodal or anything else stat related in my out of work world
 
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Fredd said:
how is it a misapplication? we started low (in my mind), enthusiasm rose to it's peak, and now it is starting to decline...
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Bell curve is used to display statistical relationships, not to demonstrate trends.
 
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Well you could not have known it at the time of the Garrett hire but here we are in his 3rd full season as head coach and he has done less than both Philips and Gailey, who each took the Cowboys to the postseason twice in their respective tenures.
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Not to defend JG, but Gailey did it with remnants of the dynasty team, and Wade with the remnants of Parcells' team. Garrett is building his own team, good or bad. Or mediocre.
 
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Fredd said:
how is it a misapplication? we started low (in my mind), enthusiasm rose to it's peak, and now it is starting to decline...
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Statistically the peak is average -- the "decline" you are talking about would correspond to getting better. That's what it means to move from left to right on that distribution
 
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Future said:
First of all, the OP is referring to the shape....it literally looks like a bell so, no, its not a misapplication of the term, even if its being used differently.

Secondly, I bet $10 you didn't really know what it was and Googled it b/c nobody in their right mind actually refers to it as Gaussian. Guarantee you pulled that right from the anchor text of the second link.
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I refer to it as Gaussian all the time. Again, likely a basic stats course topic.

And it is a misapplication of the term. This would be like me calling something "next day shipping" because I waited until the next day to take your package to the post office.
 
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OP, the curve in your bell is about where it should be right now. I think the first week overinflated it, the second let a little air out of it, the third week put that air back in it, and the fourth week put it back to just about right. So this game could either could either make it dangerously high (win), or dangerously low (loss). So good luck with proper curvy bell inflation. In other words, get a tire gauge.:D:p
 
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Oh cool. There are other nerd types here! Just coded a physics engine for fun.. LMAO
 
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I couldn't be sorrier for using the term bell curve...I have a freakin' degree in math, so I know how it works, I was talking about the shape in reference to things sucking, then getting better, then looking like they could suck again...I just figured with all of the negativity on this board, I would get the point across that it is starting to spread to me a little...

all of you junior mathematicians kill me, you aren't impressing anyone....

Let's now turn this thread into whether it was an analogy of what I was trying to say without saying "aw shucks, we suck, I thought we were gonna be good, but we suck, room sucks, JJ sucks, the offense doesn't throw downfield, Mo sucks, kiffin is old....."....there, now a lot more of you can agree with the thread

my goodness...you make people want to NOT post ...I have a pretty thick skin, but some of you can 't see the forest for the trees!
 
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Fredd said:
I couldn't be sorrier for using the term bell curve...I have a freakin' degree in math, so I know how it works, I was talking about the shape in reference to things sucking, then getting better, then looking like they could suck again...I just figured with all of the negativity on this board, I would get the point across that it is starting to spread to me a little...

all of you junior mathematicians kill me, you aren't impressing anyone....

Let's now turn this thread into whether it was an analogy of what I was trying to say without saying "aw shucks, we suck, I thought we were gonna be good, but we suck, room sucks, JJ sucks, the offense doesn't throw downfield, Mo sucks, kiffin is old....."....there, now a lot more of you can agree with the thread

my goodness...you make people want to NOT post ...I have a pretty thick skin, but some of you can 't see the forest for the trees!
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Jr. Mathematician. I have a Ph.D., Freddy.
 
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You are right to feel deflated. This team has problems. Big ones. We're not elite. 2-2 would not have us in first-place in almost any other year. It's only that the NFC East is so poor this season that we're not even more sobered by where our team is. Denver is going to come to town this weekend and shown us what an elite team looks like...

Tony Romo is a problem who's able to hide behind big stats; he's a coach-killer.

The best news is: there's more to life than football.

We'll be good again someday...
 
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Just let the season play out, if we finish well ok, our defensive line has be
 
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