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  2. Handicapping - Wikipedia

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    A handicap race in horse racing is a race in which horses carry different weights, allocated by the handicapper. A better horse will carry a heavier weight, to give him or her a disadvantage when racing against slower horses. The handicapper's goal in assigning handicap weights is to enable all the horses to finish together (in a dead heat).

  3. Percentile - Wikipedia

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    For percentile ranks, a score is given and a percentage is computed. Percentile ranks are exclusive: if the percentile rank for a specified score is 90%, then 90% of the scores were lower. In contrast, for percentiles a percentage is given and a corresponding score is determined, which can be either exclusive or inclusive.

  4. Stableford - Wikipedia

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    For example, a 12 handicap golfer would increase the fixed score on holes indexed 1 through 12, a 24 handicap player would increase the score by two on holes indexed 1 through 6 and by one for the rest, and a plus handicap player would reduce the fixed scores starting at the stroke index 18 hole. [6]

  5. First-move advantage in chess - Wikipedia

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    [90] Adams' claim was widely ridiculed, [91] [92] [93] and he did not succeed in demonstrating the validity of his theory in tournament and match practice. The year after his book was published, at the finals of the 1940 U.S. Open tournament , he scored only one draw in his four games as White, but won all four of his games as Black. [ 94 ]

  6. 50–40–90 club - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 November 2024. Rare shooting proficiency in basketball During his second stint with the Phoenix Suns, Steve Nash achieved the 50-40-90 feat in four separate seasons, the most of any player. The 50–40–90 club is a statistical achievement used to distinguish players as excellent shooters in the ...

  7. IQ classification - Wikipedia

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    Score distribution chart for sample of 905 children tested on 1916 Stanford–Binet Test. IQ classification is the practice of categorizing human intelligence, as measured by intelligence quotient (IQ) tests, into categories such as "superior" and "average". [1] [2] [3] [4]

  8. Standard normal table - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, a standard normal table, also called the unit normal table or Z table, [1] is a mathematical table for the values of Φ, the cumulative distribution function of the normal distribution.

  9. Academic grading in the United States - Wikipedia

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    90–100% 4.0 B: 80–89%: 3.0 C: 70–79%: 2.0 D: 60–69%: 1.0 F: 0–59%: 0.0 Below is a grading system used by four different colleges in the United States. Other ...