The form of
standard score (in
statistics) used in a number of published
personality inventory tests, including the
California Psychological Inventory. This is a lot easier for some people to understand than
Z scores because they don't have
decimals and
negative numbers and we're usually familiar with a scale of 0 to 100, which they have.
In T scores, the
mean is
always 50 and the
standard deviation is
always 10.
To calculate a T score, you use this formula:
T = 10(Z) + 50
Pretty easy, once you've figured out your Z score. Let's do an example, referring to the set of scores I included in that writeup.. as you can see, the Z score for a noder who'd written 94 writeups was 1.1, so what would their T score be?
T=10(1.1)+50
Which comes out to 61. As you remember, the mean is always 50 and the standard deviation is always 10, so when you think about it, you can see how 11 above the mean in a scale of 100 would be 1.1 standard deviations.
Note that this, while a range of 100, is not the same as percentile.