Could it be that it was more like "Ninety percent of the students in
District X were above the national median?"
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On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, dennis roberts wrote:
> 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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