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  <title id="t">The Curve Helps Low Scores Most</title><desc id="d">A bar chart showing the points added by the square-root curve: a 50 gains about 20.7 points, a 70 about 13.7, and a 90 about 4.9.</desc>
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  <text class="ttl" x="32" y="42">The Curve Helps Low Scores Most</text>
  <text class="sub" x="32" y="64">Points added by the square-root curve, by raw score</text>
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