Board No. 151 · A demonstration in chance
Galton The bell curve, self-assembling — one blind coin-flip at a time.
Each bead meets a peg and picks a side, eighteen times over. No single bead knows where it will land. Yet the crowd never fails to draw the same curve.
Live tallyp = ½
Beads dropped
0
Peak bin
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Tallest column
0
Spread σ
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Columns rising to meet the Normal.
Bright line — analytic N(μ, σ²)
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