William B. Ware <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in sci.stat.edu:
>Anyway, more to the point... the "add one" is an old argument based on the
>notion of "real limits." Suppose the range of scores is 50 to 89. It was
>argued that 50 really goes down to 49.5 and 89 really goes up to
>89.5. Thus the range was defined as 89.5 - 49.5... thus the additional
>one unit...
Perhaps a better argument is that if you count the numbers you get
forty of them: 50, 51, 52, ..., 59 makes ten, and similarly for the
60s, 70s, and 80s.
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