[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Today's story from the Associated Press, "Study: American kids getting fatter
> at disturbing rate".
> "By 1998, nearly 22 percent of black children ages 4 to 12 were overweight,
[....]
> overweight. ...Overweight was defined as having a body-mass index higher
> than 95 percent of youngsters of the same age and sex, based on growth charts
On its face, it seems to say "22% of black children ages 4 to 12
had body-mass-index greater than 95% of [their peers]."
This is mind-bendingly difficult to comprehend as stated; but I think
what they must have *meant* was "22% of black children ages 4 to 12 had
body-mass-index in the greatest 5-th percentile of a *particular*, prior,
distribution of body-mass-indices which was once considered representative
of an acceptable state of affairs for the cohort of children 4-12".
Is this what they meant?
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