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  <title id="t">The Square-Root (Texas) Curve</title><desc id="d">A line chart of the square-root curve where curved percent equals ten times the square root of the raw percent, rising above the no-curve diagonal most for low scores.</desc>
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  <text class="ttl" x="32" y="42">The Square-Root (Texas) Curve</text>
  <text class="sub" x="32" y="64">Curved % = 10 × √(raw %) — the lift is largest for low scores</text>
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