Percentile Ranking on a Normal Distribution


One problem with percentile scores is that they have different meanings at different places on a scale. For example, a difference of a few raw score points near the mean might translate into a 10 percentile point difference, while it would take 6 or 7 points to make a 10 point percentile difference farther out on the scale. (Link to Self-check #3)




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