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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just to be clear, you can't be above the 100th percentile.  That would mean that you're taller or heavier than every child your age who exists, plus some other kids your age.  Which is, of course, impossible.  [/quote]

Clinical growth charts don't actually intend to reflect every child who exists. WHO growth charts represent growth under &quot;optimal conditions.&quot;  CDC growth charts reflect some reference populations sampled from 1963 to 1994.  That's why you'll sometimes see medical research that talks about how x% of children are above the 95% percentile for weight (where x&gt;5). [/quote]

While it is true that growth patterns change, and that the 95th %ile is not exactly at the 95th %ile of the current population,  no growth chart has a 100th %ile line, or identifies a 100th%ile.  It is not possible to be above the 100th %ile.  [/quote]

Based on the CDC data, about  17% of kids are above the 95th percentile and about a third above the 85th percentile. Given the more-than-tripling of the population above the (previous) 95th percentile, as well as the kinds of probability distributions that weight follows, some kids are absolutely above the 100% percentile on the clinical growth chart in that they are bigger than every kid who the clinical growth chart was based on, although I cannot imagine a doctor actually telling you that. [/quote]

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