Question

3.3 ranking: interpreting percentiles. suppose a company evaluates its employees and places them on a percentile ranking. if an employee evaluation is in the 82 th percentile, what does this mean in context? this employee has a evaluation rating that is 82% better than the mean evaluation rating of employees 82% of employees have this evaluation rating or worse this employee is 82% worse than other employees this employee is 82% better than other employees 82% of employees have this evaluation rating or better question help: video message instructor post to forum

Explanation:

The p - th percentile of a data - set is the value such that p percent of the data values are less than or equal to that value. So, if an employee evaluation is in the 82nd percentile, it means that 82% of employees have this evaluation rating or worse.

Answer:

82% of employees have this evaluation rating or worse