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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Neocon who wrote (51553)6/20/2002 1:54:58 PM
From: one_less  Read Replies (1) of 82486
 
Keep in mind as we work through this that I am generally an anti-social comparison (norm referent) person. Either you did some reading up in statistics or you are not as ignorant about this subject as you first claimed. You are correct about the problems with a small sample. You are not correct in stating that you can't establish a normal curve in a population that is fairly homogenaious (like gifted students). You simply have to norm your statistics on this population not the general population. A small sample can be normed but you have to take into consideration the skewing of the results and interpret it properly. As with most things context is everything. The statistic with out a good interpretation does more harm than good. I remember a school district that published their results in the news paper showing that their district was in the 67%ile nationally. They spent all summer back peddling on that.

I want to comment on your second paragraph but have to do some errands. So I will try to get to it later.
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