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To: g'nad

Just tell her when she makes 99th percentile that she should have been 100 (those percentiles always confused me. It always seemed 100 should have been the highest. Is there a 0th percentile?)


3,218 posted on 05/18/2004 6:13:58 AM PDT by JenB
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To: JenB

I dunno... but I was always in the 99th or 98th... no indication of intelligence... I just test well... multiple guess is muh specialty...


3,222 posted on 05/18/2004 6:17:48 AM PDT by g'nad (Islam delende est...)
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To: JenB
Just tell her when she makes 99th percentile that she should have been 100 (those percentiles always confused me. It always seemed 100 should have been the highest. Is there a 0th percentile?)

We had parents at the Catholic school our kids attended that used to argue with the principal about why their child should not have been in the 99th percentile because they didn't get any wrong answers. She had to explain carefully that their kids WERE the 100th, that 99% were BELOW them. Took them a bit to process that. ;o)

3,364 posted on 05/18/2004 10:45:40 AM PDT by SuziQ
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