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The “greater social mobility” (which here seems to refer to income mobility) could just indicate that the income difference, say, between the 10th and 90th percentiles is much smaller, so a very small change in income can change one’s ranking dramatically.

Matthew Yglesias » Social Mobility in America 2010

While as absolute grading will be determined by the marks obtained by the students, it is the relative grading, also called percentiles, that will determine a child's place among others.

Top Headlines 2009

Identify the position of a data value in a data set using various measures of position, such as percentiles, deciles and quartiles.

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Of course, these income numbers are going to change in 2008, since the recession surely hit the wealth of those in the top percentiles pretty hard.

Wonk Room » As The Rich Got Richer, The Poor Got Poorer 2009

In order to discard unusual spikes in activity, when the billing rate was calculated the provider would lop off the measurements in the top five percentiles and bill the customer at the rate of the 95th percentile.

In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

Clearly, the top continuously pulls away from the pack, as can be seen by the lines for the 90th and 95th wage percentiles.

Jared Bernstein: The Shape of Inequality And Its Impact on Growth Jared Bernstein 2011

One of Rothenberg's key signals: If Democratic incumbents see their support stuck in the low-40 percentiles — even if their challengers aren't faring better than that — Democrats should expect the worst from a disenchanted electorate.

Six months to November elections, with dates to watch 2010

For example, if you look at the share of families in the 20th to 94th percentiles it fluctuated around 80% prior to 1980.

Taxes and Market Time, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Murray admits hard numbers are difficult to find -- "no survey has samples large enough to calibrate precisely what's going on with the top percentiles of the population," and he cites Bill Bishop's "The Big Sort," among other work.

Is the 'New Elite' really so out-of-touch? Does it matter? Stephen Stromberg 2010

In order to discard unusual spikes in activity, when the billing rate was calculated the provider would lop off the measurements in the top five percentiles and bill the customer at the rate of the 95th percentile.

In the Plex Steven Levy 2011