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Ron Ankeny Oct 8 2004, 12:13 PM Do any of you guys know how USPSA came up with the method they use to trim the data set on classifiers? For instance, here are some open classifiers from the past year, 82.4, 84.7, 79.5, 77.6, 76.5, 78.6, 71.9, 40.2, 73.2, 80.5, 70.4, 87.4, 39.5, 97.9, 80.0, 79.3, 75.1, 67.0, and 84.1. Using traditional evaluation and measurement methods, be it averaging everything, removing outliers, massaging the data set with a statistical analysis pack, etc. there is no way I can get the data any higher than the upper 70�s. USPSA manages to get this mess to aver

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