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From: augart@h-sc1.UUCP (Steven Augart)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Remember Northwestern?
Message-ID: <592@h-sc1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 16:06:23 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 16 16:06:23 1985
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Reply-To: swa@talcott.ARPA (Steven Augart)
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Keywords: median statistics xenon buffaloids
Summary: Explanation of the statistic called "the median"

In article <112@cher.UUCP> bruce@cher.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) writes:
>In article <990@oddjob.UUCP> matt@oddjob.UUCP (Matt Crawford) writes:
>
>>P.S.  The median math S.A.T. score of Caltech students is 800.  No joke.
>OK, OK.  I'll bite.  Explain to me how the median score can be 800.  

The median of the following 3 SAT scores is 800:
800,800,200.  However, the *mean* of the scores is 600.  The quoted
statistic means that > 50 % of caltech students got 800 as their math
S.A.T. score.

Steven Augart
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