pedanterrific comments on Rhetoric for the Good - Less Wrong

49 Post author: lukeprog 26 October 2011 06:52PM

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Comment author: pedanterrific 27 October 2011 09:33:26PM 0 points [-]

Is it even possible to get a 790 total? I thought the lower bound was 900!

Comment author: lessdazed 27 October 2011 09:36:58PM *  0 points [-]

Lowest was 200 per section, and that was when it was out of 1600. So 400 was the lowest possible.

Perhaps someone considering a three section test said "600 is the lowest possible" to someone who applied that to what they considered a two section test, and concluded "300 is the lowest per section", which you picked up.

Comment author: pedanterrific 27 October 2011 09:43:05PM *  0 points [-]

Oh, okay. (I'm looking it up on the wiki now; I actually wasn't aware it used to be a 1600 point scale.)

Nevermind then. So 790 would be... 13th percentile. Ouch.

(Wikipedia gives 890 as the lowest point on the chart here, though it is for the new system.)