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Percentiles do not exist! There is no spoon.

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Soldato
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Why are many forum posters and reviewers using the term percentiles over and over.

There is NO such thing.

Anyone who has studied a modicum of statistics knows this.

They are called CENTILES, it infers a percentage system already.

Had your child's height or weight measured? The lines in the red book on the graph are referred to as CENTILES.

E.g. he/she was at the 50th centile but now is at the 54th centile for height.

Argh! Had to vent:)
 
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