Comment on The Average Student Does Not ExistparentComments−RangerScience9yRight, but number of hands and fingers doesn't form a bell curve in the first place.−AstralStorm9yGrades don't either, their composite is at most beta distributed and probably not even that.First of all, finite. There is a minimum and maximum. Second, questions tend to be internally correlated. (After all, they correspond to subjects.)Third, students are not expected to be average but pass all the questions.
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Right, but number of hands and fingers doesn't form a bell curve in the first place.
Grades don't either, their composite is at most beta distributed and probably not even that.
First of all, finite. There is a minimum and maximum. Second, questions tend to be internally correlated. (After all, they correspond to subjects.)
Third, students are not expected to be average but pass all the questions.