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I mean, "Why Percentile Calculations Don't Work the Way you Think" is better, but I don't think the current one is "utterly false".

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It depends who's reading it. The whole genre of titles "* you don't know", "you're wrong about *" is condescending and frequently false.

I suspect that's what the parent post was referring to and I would agree: percentile calculations do work the way I think, and the article didn't say anything controversial.

I'm the article's author. I don't think the headline HN chose is great but I don't mind if people have different interpretations of what I write. Hopefully all the commenters here are actually reading the original article and judging it on its merits (and flaws), right? right?

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