Poll of the Day > sometimes i feel like no one understands what percentile means and we all just

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fake that we do

I agree.

sometimes i feel like i don't have a partner

Nade_Duck posted...

sometimes i feel like i don't have a partner

It's hard to believe that there's nobody out there. It's hard to believe that you're all alone.

Nade_Duck posted...

sometimes i feel like i don't have a partner

Sometimes I feel like I wanna go to the city of cavemen, the city of Bedrock

My percentile is bigger than yours

Nade_Duck posted...

sometimes i feel like i don't have a partner

Four of my ex girlfriends have cheated on me with Nade and he still pulls this shit

check out the size of my ERROR BAR

It's usually in reference to test scoring. If you're in the 90th percentile, that means you did better than 90% of people.

i wouldn't be so positive that the definition of percentile suggests that

It might not reference test scores specifically but that's the go to example that would help you understand it.

https://www.worksheetsplanet.com/what-is-a-percentile/
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this is the entire point of the topic

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because that's like not what it means

So basically the definition can't tell you which one is the percentile, and the most fucked up part is that neither one is the percentile, because in "being in the 90th percentile", the percentile is the top 10/100 groups.

So a percentile refers to multiple groups, not the groups... You know what that's just a terrible definition.

My grandpa had a problem with his percentile but the medication helped

I always thought it was spelled persontile, so if you're in the 90th persontile you're a person of at least 90 years of age.

I maintain that there are 99 percentiles because you can't be in the 100th percentile or the 0th percentile.

But... you can be in the 0th percentile, which would mean that there are actually 100 percentiles. God damn it helly

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percentile

Note that in theory the 0th percentile falls at negative infinity and the 100th percentile at positive infinity

I mean really, fuck you helly

Stop digging. Take the blue pill.

i didn't think it would cause an existential crisis

i'm sorry

Literally emotionally upset

There are 101 percentiles and two of them are hypothetical. Some sources say there are 99 percentiles, and some sources say there are 100, those sources are mistaken.

Only I know how many percentiles there are. 99 real ones and two hypotheticals. But some sources say the 0th percentile is the entire population.

Fuck helly you're right, no one knows what a percentile is.

That's it I'm PMing adjl

I've heard terms like "99.5th" percentile to describe the top 0.5%, so I'd suggest that there are actually infinite percentiles.

In the context of that Oxford definition, though, just think of "in the 90th percentile" as being in a group that comprises 1% of the sample population, ranked 90th if ordered from lowest to highest. Colloquially, people tend to interpret that by counting from the top instead of the bottom (though it's often as "you're in the top 10%" and not "you fall into the 10th percentile from the top," which is vaguer than perhaps it ought to be, but no less accurate than somebody saying "I'm in the top 10" when they rank 10th), but that's just a matter of frame of reference, not a failure to understand the concept.

Thanks dad.

Why wouldn't there be a 100th percentile? That would just be the GOAT of whatever they're doing, like Jordan is the 100th percentile of basketball.

Because being in the 100th percentile means would mean you are in the top 0%

So unless there are an infinite amount of basketball players, he can't be in the 100th percentile.

If we say that the 1st percentile covers everything below 1% (or 0-1%), then 99-100% would be the 100th percentile. That's more commonly called the 99th percentile, though, or occasionally you'll see it broken down asymptotically with fractional percentiles (99.5th, 99.9th, 99.99th, etc).