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!