Links that may mean something to someone smart enough to figure this out

THE BEST AND THE REST: REVISITING THE NORM OF NORMALITY OF INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1744-6570.2011.01239.x/full

An alternative to either the Gaussian distribution (bell curve) or the power law?
A Question of Balance? Nonlinear Complex Phenomena in Biology and Physics

http://www.bio-balance.com/A_Question_of_Balance.htm

Lévy distribution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9vy_distribution

Inverse-gamma distribution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse-gamma_distribution

Gamma distribution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_distribution

Conjugate prior

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate_prior

Exponential family

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential_family

Dirichlet distribution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirichlet_distribution