What does a percentile mean ?

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Nancy Jain | Contributor-Level 10

2014-01-10 16:47:28

Hi, Percentile is not equivalent to percent, and I don't think the quoted text is using it in quite the right way (it's abusing the term Darwinism as well, but I guess that's for a separate question). A percentage is simply a representation of a proportion out of 100. To say three out of every six