At 05:56 PM 5/31/01 +0000, W. D. Allen Sr. wrote:
>Only from the education field do we hear the statement that over ninety
>percent of students ranked above the median! The statement was made on TV.
i take exception to the above ... i bet there are stupid folks in other
disciplines that make stupid statements like that too ...
BUT ... who said it? on what TV program? should we believe everything we
hear on TV????
in fact, this CAN be true ... depending on your frame of reference ...
example: say we have a nationally normed test ... and, you are comparing
YOUR school district's students to the national norms ... it is totally
possible that 90% of YOUR students could be above the national median ...
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