I would like to add my, "Me Too!" to Tim and John's posts.  Rather than
torture students with the percentile formula, I use Tukey hinges for
quartiles.

I also have difficulty with the (High - Low) + 1 formula for the range
that is presented in some texts.  It assumes that the units of measure
are integers and that the most extreme obtained values came from the
even more extreme real limits of those values.  What is the rationale
for that?!

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