Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site isucs1.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!isucs1!roy
From: roy@isucs1.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Re: Remember Northwestern?
Message-ID: <479@isucs1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 04:01:12 EST
Article-I.D.: isucs1.479
Posted: Wed Oct 30 04:01:12 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 07:40:38 EST
Sender: notes@isucs1.UUCP
Organization: Iowa State University
Lines: 33
Nf-ID: #R:gcc-bill:-36600:isucs1:47900011:000:988
Nf-From: isucs1!roy    Oct 29 13:07:00 1985


>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

Wouldn't it only be necessary for more than half to score 800?

					Roy Rubinstein

					csnet:   roy@iowa-state
					usenet:  isucs1!roy
No quote here!