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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are 3,900,000 fifth graders in the country.

Scoring above 99th percentile, there are at most 39,000.

Fairfax County has 10,000 fifth graders. They represent 0.25% of the fifth graders in the country.

The rest of the country, as much as it pains some of you to admit it, isn't full of dullards and imbeciles.

If Fairfax County had hundreds of students scoring 40 points above the 99th percentile, so would the other hundreds of other counties in the 49 other states.  You can not be so obtuse to not see this.

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Seriously.  Literally no one suggested that the rest of the country is full of dullards, and that FCPS has an absurd share of gifted kids.  Also, literally no one has suggested that there are "hundreds of students scoring 40 points above the 99th percentile."  The claim was 50-100 kids scoring 30-40 points over the 99th percentile.

Iready, like almost all nationally normed tests, likely does not include an affluent, tiger mom area with large numbers of kids in enrichment programs in their norming group.  Across the country, there would likely be many more than 1% of the kids scoring above the 99th percentile.  This same phenomenon occurs with CogAT and NNAT.  There's a reason that over 10% of FCPS kids score in the top 2% of the nationally normed CogAT, and it does not mean that FCPS kids are just that smart.  Every single other affluent, educated area with motivated parents sees absurdly many kids scoring 132+ on the CogAT.  The norming is not accurate at the high ends.

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