March 9, 2017 [Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Binghamton University]

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<WRAP centeralign>##Statistics Seminar##\\ Department of Mathematical Sciences</WRAP>

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^  **DATE:**|Thursday, March 9, 2017 |
^  **TIME:**|1.15p-2.15p |
^  **LOCATION:**|WH 100E |
^  **SPEAKER:**|Seth Spain, School of Management, Binghamton University |
^  **TITLE:**|Gauss is not mocked: Distributions of Individual Job Performance|
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<WRAP centeralign>**Abstract**</WRAP>
Recent research has suggested that individual job performance in a variety of job types may
be distributed according to a power law. This has led to a vigorous debate about the use of
the normal distribution as a modeling default in the organizational sciences. I will examine
further evidence, which shows that most heavy-tailed performance distributions are not
well-described by a power law, but that many are not normally distributed either. These findings
raise a number of theoretical questions about how performance distributions arise and what 
processes might govern them. 
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