1. That same year, a contest was launched to ____ a living embodiment of Norma. Normal is often used as a synonym for "typical," "expected", or even "correct." 2. This puzzle isn’t unique to Norma and Norman, either - ____ and time again, so-called normal descriptions of our bodies, minds, and perceptions have turned out to ____ almost no one. 3. So what does normal actually mean - and should we be relying on it so much? In statistics, a normal distribution describes a set of values that ____ along a bell curve. 4. The average, or ____ , of all the values is at the very centre, and most other values fall within the hump of the bell. 5. These curves can be tall, with most values inside a narrow range, or long and ____ , with only a slight bias towards the average. 1. But oftentimes, our calculations of normal are even more ____ . 2. Take the BMI - or Body Mass Index. BMI is a measure of ____ relative to height, with different ratios falling into "underweight," "normal weight," "overweight," and "obese" ranges. 3. BMI doesn’t take into ____ body fat percentage, body fat distribution, levels of physical activity, or blood pressure. 4. When we apply a standard of normal to all of humanity that’s based on data from a non-representative slice, we’re not just choosing one ____ on the distribution, we’re choosing it from the wrong distribution. 5. A lot of behavior science research ____ from samples that are ____ WEIRD - meaning Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic.

Missing word WEIRD... (LH)

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