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Have you read Nassim Nicholas Taleb's "The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable". I found it a sometimes laborious and over wordy read in which the author presents his arguments against the use of the Bell Curve as a useful statistical tool. If you sift through it Taleb's "Black Swan's" (because until Australia was discovered all swan's were white) may go some way to explaining what you've experienced. It may not too and perhaps I should go back to my navel gazing, but the book certainly does make you think.

Here's an interesting review I just stumbled across.

http://opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110009979

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