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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I always take this stuff with a grain of salt. It's one indicator of academic success. But as you say, you have no idea how close some of the kids were to making NMSF. It could be (not saying it is, but just as an example) that TJ has 35% NMSFs and the other 65% are far below the cut off, while at STA 15% are but 50% are within 1 or 2 percentage points of the cutoff. You really can't go only by that, but I also agree TJ has impressive numbers by most counts, and that I think speaks more about TJ than it does STA[/quote].

This rationalization suggests  solid elementary course in statistics and probabilty was not part of your academic transcript.
 
 
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Actually, it was.  I'm wondering, where was my poor, Ivy-League training deficient on this example?  I made the point that you haven't included information on the distance of other students from the NMS threshold.  I provided a layman's example, to be sure, but one that I think made the point very clearly.

A more accurate measurement of National Merit Scholarship success (or preparedness) might be some kind of NMS deficit, where one calculates the mean distance separating the population and students at school A from the NMS finalist cutoff (where those above the cutoff have zero mean distance).

But please, do inform me of my own clear academic deficit.[/quote]

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