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Speaker626,
Statistics...your right I forgot mean vs median. My simplified explanation regarding the "95th percentile " works as a "best pressure" in general but mathematically it is much more complicated. Could you elaborate on "95th percentile"?

An example would be (I'm familiar with this one) that if a baby is said to be within the 95th percentile of similar age kids of a certain height, then 5% of them would be below that height, or if 95 of 100 were achieving (or passing) a certain landmark weight by age 3, 5% would not be.

Julie wrote:An example would be (I'm familiar with this one) that if a baby is said to be within the 95th percentile of similar age kids of a certain height, then 5% of them would be below that height, or if 95 of 100 were achieving (or passing) a certain landmark weight by age 3, 5% would not be.

Except in Minnesota, where all the kids are above average.

Hi Big D and others,

Yes. Sunday was a break from stress of looking for job (writing helps) so as soon as have time this week will do, or, may wait till next Sunday. You did raise interesting point- people use definitions differently (hence my initial confusion). Oh, and the point of my long winded note was that these tools used for manufacturing have great application in real life- especially in predicting/correcting/preventing problems with kids these days. If I helped even one parent start a journal of kid's individual test scores/stressors at the time, then I feel useful. Umm, yes, you could plot these on a simple "control chart" (data plotting tool for predicting when things are going astray so you have time to fix first- in theory) but then again the kid might feel like a Toyota.

brain_cloud wrote: Except in Minnesota, where all the kids are above average.

I think that's only in Lake Wobegon...

(Wonder how many got your reference?)