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Maybe they are grading on a bell curve like they did in my youth? 10% get excellent reviews, 10% get poor reviews and everyone else falls somewhere in the midd

• ksaj 4y ago
  It was yet another way to stretch that 80-20 rule's mileage. I remember when the idea of a bell curve was new, and you saw it applied to absolutely everything, even if it was only a superficial (or sometimes completely bogus) fit. I've even seen it applied to the Kinsey Scale. Presumably 10% of the population is totally straight, 10% totally gay, and 80% are varying degrees of total party animals after dark. Or something like that. That might have actually been where I first heard of the Bell Curve, but I've seen it applied in a lot of places since. The worst place I've seen it applied is for DST daylight hours. Bell curves exist, but it's strange that people only see it as a variation of the 80-20 rule.
  • tristor 4y ago
    Technically a bell curve can only be 80/20 of you slice things several standard deviations from the mean. Anything that truly falls on a curve will not end up being 80/20.
• clnq 4y ago
  It’s just called stack ranking now. And it doesn’t make sense. A company can be full of high performers or low performers, but the stack ranking principle itself would make management blind to that.