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[Scott Holtzman]

An article on the home page caught my eye so I jumped at the click bait hoping for some tips on how to deal with people with challenging personalities.

http://www.prosoundweb.com/article/church_sound_communicating_with_non-technical_parishioners/

It was decent, and a reminder that all folks in the tech sector can get stuck between technobabble or arrogance however I paused when arriving at this Perl of Wisdom:

http://www.prosoundweb.com/article/church_sound_communicating_with_non-technical_parishioners/

50% of the population falls to the left of the Bell curve, some quite far.  The person that despite much counseling will not speak into the microphone.

I agree that technical aptitude is not a correlation to intelligence but half of the people you encounter are simply on the left side of the curve.  To not acknowledge this is BS.

How about a roommate I had in college, who when challenged by the label falling off the top of his gearshift taped a note to the dashboard with the shift pattern.  This fellow went on the breed.

So sorry, I hope it doesn't stray into political but sometimes things are complicated and some people just don't get it.  That's text book stupid.

[Jeff Bankston]

My cowbell is flat. All the shifter handles and balls on my shifters say HURST and there aint no shift pattern. My drum sticks are not labeled left hand , right hand. If you turn a light switch upside down it reads "NO" and some people will not touch it. All my vehicles have manual windows. I gave a guy a ride once and he couldnt figure out how to roll the window down. I could go on with this.

[Tim McCulloch]

I prefer the Patti Labelle curve to The Bell Jar curve.

[Jeff Bankston]

Here is my uncurved bell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwIdXHPczFo

That was pretty bad ! 

[Scott Slater]

Ron White said this:  https://youtu.be/UQv7Tr8HbGE?t=1m36s

[Jason Lavoie]

An article on the home page caught my eye so I jumped at the click bait hoping for some tips on how to deal with people with challenging personalities.

http://www.prosoundweb.com/article/church_sound_communicating_with_non-technical_parishioners/

It was decent, and a reminder that all folks in the tech sector can get stuck between technobabble or arrogance however I paused when arriving at this Perl of Wisdom:

50% of the population falls to the left of the Bell curve, some quite far.  The person that despite much counseling will not speak into the microphone.

I agree that technical aptitude is not a correlation to intelligence but half of the people you encounter are simply on the left side of the curve.  To not acknowledge this is BS.

How about a roommate I had in college, who when challenged by the label falling off the top of his gearshift taped a note to the dashboard with the shift pattern.  This fellow went on the breed.

So sorry, I hope it doesn't stray into political but sometimes things are complicated and some people just don't get it.  That's text book stupid.

I guess the expectation is that the majority of people who voluntarily step up to a mic on a semi-regular basis should be on the right side of that curve, or at least be striving to get there

Jason

[John Roberts {JR}]

I always thought a bell curve wasn't about left or right, but the center, vs the lowly fringes...   

JR

[Stephen Swaffer]

So did I -but you and I are thinking about the bell curve that is a key concept in physics.  Apparently, he is talking about the Bell Curve (caps are important).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve

Now his statement is understandable-though I'm not defending the accuracy of said statement.

[Mark Cadwallader]

I was going to post a lengthy reply to Scott's statement about "50% of people are to the left of the bell curve", but I'll respectfully suggest that most of us can't correctly and reliably identify who in a large group falls to the left or right of the midpoint of a normal distribution. And most of the time, it doesn't matter much in day-to-day life.

[Craig Leerman]

I prefer the Patti Labelle curve to The Bell Jar curve.

The Patti Labelle curve is way better than the BelL Biv DeVoe curve

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