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It really doesn't mean much at all. It is not statistically significant. 100 is set to average, but in reality half the population would score above an ideal test, and half below that point. The scores follow a bell shaped curve, where the difference between 96 and 104 reflects very little. Imagine you are standing four feet from the top of a mountain peak, and someone else is four feet from the other side of that peak. You're both pretty much on the same level.

Someone who scores a 96 might score a 100 if they had better sleep the night before, or a better breakfast. You would have trouble identifying anyone less than 10 points from the norm from normal conversational cues.

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