In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in
sci.stat.edu, Glen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm having trouble thinking of a
>> straightforward example of a distribution that is skewed left
>
>Number of marks on an easy, but not short, test (i.e. where most people
>get close to full marks, but a few do substantially less well).
Oh yeah -- now it comes back to me, I think that answer was actually
given here a month or so ago when I asked. Gulp!
Another answer I think I got here was high-school GPAs of entering
freshmen at a very selective university (or undergrad GPAs of
entering students at a selective grad school).
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