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If percentile refers to tenths, what does decile mean and what's the difference between the top percentile and the top decile?

• chias 7y ago
  > if percentile refers to tenths It doesn't, percentile refers to percents. Tenth percentile means is the 10%, twentieth percentile means the 20%, etc.
  • sokoloff 7y ago
    $100 says Arnt knows that fact perfectly well.
    • chias 7y ago
      Indeed, looking back it seems likely that there was a joke here that WHOOSHed over my head :D