Elizabeth Thornton

Many high school students are under so much competitive pressure. They are sometimes taught that if they don't have a 4.0 GPA, score in the 99th percentile on admissions tests, and demonstrate leadership in sports and participate in clubs, they won't get into college anywhere. Even highly credentialed professionals get caught up in this.

Canadian Writer

Derek Bok

Although professors regard improving critical thinking as the most important goal of college, tests reveal that seniors who began their studies with average critical thinking skills have progressed only from the 50th percentile of entering freshmen to about the 69th percentile.

American Lawyer

Maggie Gallagher

The strongest results were in Florida and Texas. In just one year in a Texas charter school, an average student gained 7 percentile points in math and 8 percentile points in reading, while Florida charter schools improved student performance by 6 percentile points.

American Writer

Stephen Rodrick

I tested in the top percentile for IQ, but I couldn't tie my shoes or really ride a bike without training wheels until I was almost 7.

American Journalist

Chris Pine

I'm in that lucky percentile where I can worry about how I want to shape my career. That's a wonderful place to be.

American Actor

Chad Kroeger

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

Canadian Musician

Percentiles compare individual scores or data to a larger group, showing where it stands.

Data Comparison

A percentile is not the same as a percentage; it's about rank within a group, not the score itself.

Not a Percentage

Percentiles are often used in exams and statistics to objectively compare data points.

Quantitative Analysis

As an adjective, 'percentile' describes something related to ranking in a data set.

Statistical Context

Percentile adjectives clarify how something ranks compared to all other data points.

Clarifying Ranking

Percentile rankings help provide an objective measure of performance or attributes.

Objective Measurement

 just drop into a classroom and everything is going to be perfect but when in use conjunct when in conjunction with amazing teachers who can really set the right culture for students to take ownership and really direct their own learning we have seen some pretty incredible things happening these are the percentile scores for a ninth grade

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 And the best projection from the World Bank is that this will happen, and we will not have a divided world. We'll have most people in the middle. Of course it's a logarithmic scale here, but our concept of economy is growth with percent. We look upon it as a possibility of percentile increase.

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 so that it's not worrying about electrode contact. And we can have the real estate open to try more sensation feedback. We want to build a better arm. This arm -- they're always made for the 50th percentile male -- which means they're too big for five-eighths of the world.

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 Similarly, the diplomat might be measured against other test-taking diplomats, or against a set of fixed criteria, which demonstrate different levels of language proficiency. And all of these results can be expressed using something called a percentile.

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 and they were out to look for venture-capital funding, then the research shows us very clearly that the chances of these minority-women-led founder teams to find venture-capital funding are very slim, in the single percentile,

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 participation rates have now dropped to about the 60th percentile. Now it turns out that even if you do choose to participate when there are more choices present, even then, it has negative consequences.

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 we made small enough to fit on a 50th percentile female, so that we could put it in any of these people. It's going to go inside something that we use in CAT scans and MRIs of whatever is their good arm,

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 50th percentile female frame. "And it's going to be completely self contained including all its power." So, they finished that. And I, as you can tell, am a bashful guy. I told them they're nuts.

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 and then of course that dramatic difference of the 25, 40 and 35 percentile. But of course, what is the neural network that is helping to bridge and build these different discrepancies?

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 scored in the 95th percentile on the national achievement test. Many of those kids could not hold a pencil