Hamm v. Smith · ¶157

The Eleventh Circuit's analysis ignored this attribute of confidence intervals. It concluded that Smith's IQ was 70 or below because the lower bound of the interval for one score was 69. But the fact that 69 marked the lower limit of the interval meant that this value was less likely to refect Smith's “true” IQ than other, higher values in the interval. Once again, the Eleventh Circuit's analysis was precisely backward.

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