Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site gcc-bill.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!ucbvax!ucdavis!lll-crg!seismo!harvard!gcc-bill!john From: john@gcc-bill.ARPA (John Allred) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Remember Northwestern? Message-ID: <366@gcc-bill.ARPA> Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 12:30:42 EDT Article-I.D.: gcc-bill.366 Posted: Thu Oct 17 12:30:42 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 20-Oct-85 08:47:19 EDT References: <1730@watdcsu.UUCP> <249@laidbak.UUCP> <990@oddjob.UUCP> <112@cher.UUCP> Reply-To: john@gcc-bill.UUCP (John Allred) Organization: General Computer Company, Cambridge Ma (Home of the HyperDrive) Lines: 23 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. 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. > >-- >*** >* Bruce Stewart @ Benetics Corporation, Mt. View, CA >* Just another working stiff ... >* {cdp,greipa,idi,oliveb,sun,tolerant}!bene!cher!bruce >*** Easy ... everyone scored 800. -- John Allred General Computer Company uucp: seismo!harvard!gcc-bill!john