Someone help with basic statistics

[Deleted member 4614]

Low IQcel needs help

If a height is in the 95% percentile, does that mean that it is taller than 95/100 men, or more than that due to a bell curve?

Or for example if someones face is a psl 6, 2 standard devitions ~97%, do 3/100 mog them in a random room of 100 men? I feel like it is supposed to be less than that because it is clustered towards the mean, there isnt an equal distribution of faces???

 

[chadison]

Percentile implies the former of what you mentioned. You would be taller or as tall as 95% of men

 

[John124]

95th percentile means higher than 95% of people

You mog 19 in 20
1 in 20 mog you

 

[Deleted member 12669]

ok i guess i was overcomplicating it.

Yeah slightly

 

[John124]

So in a random room of 100, would you then be probably approximately taller than 95 of them, or would the random population cluster towards the mean/median?

There's variation in real world data but most human traits approximate the normal distribution. 95 percentile height means you are no shorter than 95% of men.

For example here, most women are around the same height because their standard deviation is narrower (almost all are between 4'11" & 5'11"). There's more significant height differences between men because the distribution is more spread out. The same range for men is roughly 5'3" to 6'6" which is 15" instead of women's 12"

 

[thecel]

So in a random room of 100, would you then be probably approximately taller than 95 of them, or would the random population cluster towards the mean/median?

both