41. Now comes " The Bell Curve " by Charles Murray and the late Richard Herrnstein. 42. Bell curves , of course, aren't the only statistical patterns.43. Consider this datum from social scientist Charles Murray, author of " The Bell Curve ": 44. Supposedly " The Bell Curve " is controversy incarnate. 45. Percentile rank 30 is closer on the bell curve to 40 than it is to 20. 46. Shockley receives only one guarded paragraph in the 845 pages of " The Bell Curve ." 47. Though " The Bell Curve " contains serious scholarship, it is also laced with tendentious interpretation. 48. The results were a fairly standard bell curve . 49. The distribution of wealth does not look like the " bell curve " beloved of statisticians. 50. The referential value of the induced surface charge could be roughly represented as a bell curve .
