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title: Why are there gaps between successive raw scores on some scales of the profiles?
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updated: "2024-01-30"
category: Clinical Questions
tags:
  - Individual Scale Score Reports
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# Why are there gaps between successive raw scores on some scales of the profiles?

Answer: Most gaps directly reflect the distributions of scores in the normative samples, where skewed distributions or clusters of individuals at a particular raw score caused a large change in percentiles from one score to the next. Gaps between scores in the clinical range occur in scales where there were only a few possible scores available for assignment to T scores in equal intervals.