Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
I was informed rather crisply that there simply aren't any functional differences between kids at the 90% percentile and those at the 99.5%+ one. It was implied that I was being elitist and obnoxious for even asking.

Yeah, because 1 in 10 is clearly the same as 1 in 100 or 1 in 1000. It's all just a bunch of ones and zeroes. Hmm ... binary ... must be high-level stuff.