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fernandomejia fernandomejia
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This is a debate between my boss and I. We both have exceptionally large daughters, and his contention is that the CDC scale has a max of 95th percentile, anything off of that is nearing but cannot exceed 100, as percentile are parts of 100. My contention is that you can exceed 100, and that its part of a population, that you'd have to pick say, 99 other people of the same age and gender to find one who is at least as large, if not larger. I have been told that I am of the 120+ percentile for height, being 6'10", and likewise for weight. I did some cursory searches, but am finding evidence for both "definitions" of percentile, but no mathematic proof that disqualifies the other.
I guess the question is then, when someone refers to the say 140th percentile, or 105th percentile, how do they reach that value? What does that really represent?
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10 years ago
Not possible to exceed 100th -- the percentile is the value below which a certain percentage of the population falls.  So anything > 100 would be redundant.
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