Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site adobe.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!Glacier!adobe!greid From: greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Northwestern?/caltech Message-ID: <775@adobe.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 01:13:27 EDT Article-I.D.: adobe.775 Posted: Fri Oct 25 01:13:27 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 07:09:22 EDT References: <1730@watdcsu.UUCP> <249@laidbak.UUCP> <990@oddjob.UUCP> <112@cher.UUCP> <3032@sdcc3.UUCP> <760@adobe.UUCP> <3045@sdcc3.UUCP> Reply-To: greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid) Distribution: net Organization: Adobe Systems, Palo Alto Lines: 41 Summary: one last thing... This is getting ridiculous, so I will start off with a joke before I flame: (god--what's one that hasn't appeared on the net within the average reader's memory-span?) How many DEC software engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? Depends on how many burned-out bulbs he brought with him. "I'm not arguing with you, I'm telling you..." Eric Anderson: >>>OK. My SAT Math score was 780. (780=1 wrong) >>> >>>Eric Anderson, UC San Diego >> >>Wrong. The scores on the SAT's have nothing to do with how many you "get >>wrong". They are standard deviations from the statistical mean. This is to >> >>Glenn Reid {ihnp4!decwrl!adobe!greid} > >No, I am perfectly correct: In any given year at least one person will get a >perfect score (I know three such people from my high school). Thus 800 will be >the top and perfect score. In a year when the test is hard, 1 wrong tends to >be 780, if the test is easier 1 wrong tends to be 770. Moving down the scale >this distinction is not so easy, but at the very end it changes very little. > >Eric Anderson, UC San Diego {elsewhere}!ihnp4!ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcc3!ewa What you think you are saying is "perfectly correct": that 800 is a "perfect" score. What this means is that they don't award higher scores. It does not mean that you got "none wrong" or "one wrong" or any such thing. It is entirely possible that an 800 represents all correct answers. The preparers of the test hope that this never happens, because it indicates a bad test. It is far more likely that the highest scorer will get some of them wrong, if only because there are more questions than can reasonably be answered in the given time period. This allows a more even distribution. Can you say "standard deviation?" Are you sure you didn't get somebody else's math scores? Glenn Reid (again, and for the last time). -- You have new mail.