Word: medians
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...mean of all grades awarded—which is not the same as the mean of all student grade point averages—for the 2005-2006 academic year was 3.45, and the median...
...median grade point value has remained constant and the mean has increased slightly from 3.42 since...
...this potential inability for us to understand religion that makes it easy for some students to reconcile their faith with their academics. And perhaps it is just this insistence that can forge the happy median between the two formerly conflicting arenas...
...Some 20-30% of plant and animal species are at risk of extinction if global temperatures rise in line with median projections, while by 2080, many millions of people living along coastlines will face an annual flood risk. As Camille Parmesan, a professor of integrative biology at the University of Texas, put it, "We're going into a realm the world has not seen for a very long time...
Look closely at the numbers, though, and women don't seem so hopeless with money after all. Median annual credit-card debt for single women was just $1,900 in 2004, compared with $2,000 for single men, according to the Federal Reserve Board's Survey of Consumer Finances. But don't tell that to Glinda Bridgforth, author of Girl, Get Your Credit Straight!, who recommends visualization and meditation to help us break plastic's grip on our financial well-being...