[senco-forum] 4th percentile

In a message dated 24/04/2007 18:12:04 GMT Standard Time,  
kay at zouhair.fsnet.co.uk writes:

a  student with a percentile score of 4 would mean that 96% of the peers 
would  score above that student and 3% below. 

The Dyslexia Institute (now  Dyslexia Action) used to use centile rather than 
percentile, but it means the  same thing.  

Right on both counts, but beware the limitations of tests which are base on  
a normal distribution - a statistical term which is fine for cold statistics,  
but a less reliable measure of the warmth of human behaviour.

Martin