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To: TimF who wrote (4850)2/28/2006 11:19:01 AM
From: Peter Dierks  Respond to of 71588
 
Thanks for correcting me. IMHO they should have stuck with either one of two systems. Either: Make the boundaries at whole numbers; thus George W Bush is above average and Reagan is great. Or: determine that only 5% can be great (and 5% failures), thus nixing FDR's membership and applying a curve using statistics based on that.



To: TimF who wrote (4850)2/28/2006 11:21:53 AM
From: Peter Dierks  Respond to of 71588
 
Thanks for correcting me. IMHO they should have stuck with either one of two systems. Either: Make the boundaries at whole numbers; thus George W Bush is above average and Reagan is great. Or: determine that only 5% can be great (and 5% failures), thus nixing FDR's membership and applying a curve using statistics based on that.

The later system would also rescue three from the failure category.


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