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On Thu, 31 May 2001, 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. (1) I take it that it was the keyword "students" that led you to suppose that the statement had anything to do with "the education field" (rather than, say, the field of study the students were pursuing). (2) The statement appears, however, not to have been made by any agency of "the education field", but "on TV" -- by which one supposes you mean broadcast television. That's not education: that's entertainment. Or, possibly, "news", or the deliberate distortion thereof. (3) A couple of colleagues have already pointed out how the statement you so scornfully cite might in fact be true; although whether in fact any such interpretation can be believed is impossible to tell, in the absence of any context. Donald F. Burrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] 348 Hyde Hall, Plymouth State College, [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSC #29, Plymouth, NH 03264 603-535-2597 184 Nashua Road, Bedford, NH 03110 603-471-7128 = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
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Could it be that it was more like "Ninety percent of the students in District X were above the national median?" WBW __ William B. Ware, Professor and Chair Educational Psychology, CB# 3500 Measurement, and Evaluation University of North Carolina PHONE (919)-962-7848 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3500 FAX: (919)-962-1533 http://www.unc.edu/~wbware/ EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, dennis roberts wrote: > At 05:56 PM 5/31/01 +, 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 ... > > > > > >WDA > > > >end > > > > > > > > > > > >= > >Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about > >the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at > > http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ > >= > > _ > dennis roberts, educational psychology, penn state university > 208 cedar, AC 8148632401, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/drober~1.htm > > > > = > Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about > the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at > http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ > = > = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
Re: Ninety Percent above Median
At 05:56 PM 5/31/01 +, 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 ... >WDA > >end > > > > > >= >Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about >the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at > http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ >= _ dennis roberts, educational psychology, penn state university 208 cedar, AC 8148632401, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://roberts.ed.psu.edu/users/droberts/drober~1.htm = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
Ninety Percent above Median
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. WDA end = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
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Bonjour, Je suis étudiant en Agronomie et réalise cette année un travail de fin d’étude sur la commune de Feuilla (Aude). Je m’intéresse au ruisseau de Feuilla et aux insectes de la ripisylve. J’ai cartographier sur Arcview la totalité du bassin hydrographique du ruisseau. J’ai fixé 9 stations d’étude le long du ruisseau. Avant d’étudier l’éventuelle relation entre pollution du ruisseau et entomofaune rencontrée sur ses berges, je voudrais étudier la relation entre l’environnement de chaque station et les insectes piégés. Pour décrire l’environnement d’une station, à l’aide du SIG, il me suffit de tracer un cercle d'un certain diamètre et dont le centre coïncide approximativement avec le milieu de celle-ci. Le SIG fournit dés lors le pourcentage de chaque unité paysagère à l'intérieur du cercle que je considère alors comme l’environnement de la station. Le problème que j’ai réside dans le choix du rayon de ce cercle. Je ne trouve pas de biblio à ce sujet. Auriez-vous une idée ? Je pensais à plus ou moins 30 m. PS : Une unité de piégeage comprend l'ensemble des pièges groupés sur une même station, soit ici, 5 pièges par station dont 2 bacs jaunes et 3 pitfall traps. Je les ai placé aléatoirement sur la surface échantillonnée, en l'occurrence, la ripisylve du Rieu de Feuilla. Pour le traitement statistique des données je considère la totalité des individus capturés. Toutefois, le détail des relevés bacs jaunes-pitfall traps reste disponible. La largeur moyenne du ruisseau étant relativement faible (± 1 m), j’ai considéré qu'il n'y avait pas de différence fondamentale entre l'entomofaune des deux rives. La surface échantillonnée s'étale donc de part et d'autre du ruisseau. Enfin la distance entre deux stations est de 350m. Sine Jérôme, étudiant 5 ème année ingénieur agronome FSAGX. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
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Hi, a basic question from a MSc student in England. First of all, yeah I read the FAQ and I didnt find anything answering my question, which is fairly simple: I am trying to analyse how well several mathematical methods perform to modelize a scanner. So I have, for every input data, the corresponding output given by the scanner and the values given by the mathematical models I am using. First, given the distribution of the errors, I can use the usual mean-StdDev if the distro is normal, or median-95th percentile otherwise. Any other known methods to enhance the pertinence of the analysis? Any ideas welcome. Thanks in advance, Alexis = Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =
