Posted by Larry Hoover on December 3, 2005, at 22:17:18
In reply to ...I should've added... » Larry Hoover, posted by pseudoname on December 3, 2005, at 16:40:29
> I forgot to add (to my preceding post about averages) that Larry's statement...
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> > And 50% of pharmacists graduated in the bottom half of their class.
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> ...is, I think, always true, since it refers to a percentile, not an average.It is always true because 50% is a half, of anything.
The 50th percentile is the median, so that's also another way of saying the same thing.
Lar
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