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From: slerner@sesame.UUCP (Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Re: Remember Northwestern?
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Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 01:27:41 EDT
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> 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.  I'm 
> under the impression that 800 is the maximum possible score.  Since the
> median score is defined as the score that divides the distribution into
> halves (50% above, 50% below), I fail to see how this is possible.  Go ahead.
> Enlighten me.
> 

I am NOT saying the above statistic is correct, but it is possible.
For the MEDIAN to be 800 (the max possible score), you would need
50% (+1) of the student body having a score of 800.

(Gee Whiz, I guess you didn't get an 800 in math.)  ;-)
                   ^^^

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