quintile
noun
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Breaking Down the Meaning of Quintile
Many people have a deep interest in statistics about themselves, whether the information provided is about income, ice-cream consumption, or trash production. And any such rating can be divided into fifths, or quintiles. The fifth or lowest quintile would include the 20 percent of the population who make the least money or eat the least ice cream or generate the least trash, and the first quintile would include the 20 percent who make, eat, or generate the most.
Examples of quintile in a Sentence
Mohamed Kande and Lang Davidson Of Pwc, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024
The benefits of being a quadratic company To arrive in that top-performance quintile, quadratic companies make mutually reinforcing investments in their business, operating, and technology models, which in turn drive performance factors such as innovation, speed-to-market, and flexibility.
—Mohamed Kande and Lang Davidson Of Pwc, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024
Across the United States, just 2% of students from the lowest income quintile receive gifted services, compared with 13% of students from the highest quintile.
—Kelly Field, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Jan. 2024
Recent research from McKinsey found that workers in the two lowest wage quintiles are up to 10 to 14 times more likely than the highest earners to be forced to change occupations by 2030.
—Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2023
For the bottom two quintiles of the wealth distribution, however, inflation remains a nightmare.
—Will Daniel, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2023
The death rate was in the highest quintile among countries globally, but slightly better than many of its Balkans neighbors.
—Cate Brown, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2023
On the list of challenges that most people acknowledge women are facing in the second quintile of the 21st century—from being shut out of corporate boardrooms to untreated fistulas—the inability to play Texas Hold’em does not rank very high, but Just is all in.
—Time, 24 July 2023
Though the study was focused on the top income quintile, the state’s affordability crisis has hit others even harder, causing movement away from coastal cities to booming suburbs and exurbs inland.
—Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
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“Quintile.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/quintile. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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