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Oscarcharliezulu t1_iwu465n wrote

Reply to comment by Marchello_E in 10,000 Google Employees Could Be Rated as Low Performers by ThisIsNotCorn

The bell curve seems to exist just to rank people without understanding their true value.

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Marchello_E t1_iwv2lqc wrote

There is simply no way that people perform (or be) as average as anyone else. A bell curve is just a plot: a mathematical visualization.

An often overlooked thing is that one on the left side of the hill may brighten the day of the one on the right side of the hill. For a random image: maybe that "lefty" likes plants more than the actual work yet, as he walks around, is the perfect target to bounce of ideas (he has to have some work related talents) to see how they may get received even before doing some alpha/beta testing in the wild. As such this may informally connect different aspects of a group. Boot the "lefty" to boost "righties" and a new bell curve will arise. Likely on another curve showing more stress, more internal competition, and less solidarity.

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Oscarcharliezulu t1_ix2bzxe wrote

The bell curve is a perfectly good working model for a normal distribution but the evil comes when you decide what the variables are and then apply that curve to your population in order to get the result you want.

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