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The student argues that since more than half of the students in the class scored an 80% or better on the Algebra exam, and since Marc only scored a 75%, then Marc must have “learned less” about Algebra than most of the other students in the class. Unfortunately for the student, this requires a dangerous assumption: because Marc ended the year slightly behind most other students in terms of percentage score (75% to 80%), he must have made less progress during the year than most
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The student argues that since more than half of the students in the class scored an 80% or better on the Algebra exam, and since Marc only scored a 75%, then Marc must have “learned less” about Algebra than most of the other students in the class. Unfortunately for the student, this requires a dangerous assumption: because Marc ended the year slightly behind most other students in terms of percentage score (75% to 80%), he must have made less progress during the year than most
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