We don't take very many people way up there at the ends, but the areas above the cutoff are more different than we would have supposed. I thought of this example because of a very nice demonstration program written by David Lane at Rice. That program allows you to set the distributions for males and females wherever you wish, and then to see what happens as you change the cutoff. I recommend that you try it out. This is a nice illustration of the fact that many of the things that bombard us every day are really of a statistical nature, but we rarely think of them that way.
Statisticians have relevance.