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...letter sigma is the mathematical symbol for the underlying population standard deviation, which marks off important divisions of the Gaussian distribution. That distribution is better know as the bell shaped curve, and it has been used to rank you against your peers since you first learned to bubble in letters in fourth grade. Its single broad hump and leisurely asymptotic decline account for the gifted, the dull and the discontented masses in between...
...guys in Biology think you're so quantitative. Bah. When's the last time you made a trigonometric substitution to solve a Gaussian wave packet without resorting to numerical methods?" said Weld Professor of Very Large Objects Barry Ahnn...
Science students live on another planet. Their courses are incredibly rigorous; if you don't keep up with the work every week, you'll fall behind your classmates. And since the courses are graded with fancy scientific Gaussian bell curves--which rate your work not only on how good it is, but on how well others are doing--those classmates may be glad to see you falter...
...wearing placards. The Princetonian (campus daily) headlined in its burlesque issue: "GAUSS'S SHAME." A senior, George Lambert, sporting scion of Listerine (mouth wash, etc.), inspired university admiration by bringing to town an airplane and droning over the campus in it. Airplanes were not mentioned in the Gaussian edict against motor vehicles...
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