Both of us working but was never able to build credit because we had a zero credit score, noone would lend to us, not even a gas card, because we were judged by a credit score.

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The worst return got a score of zero, and all the other stocks were somewhere in between.

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Each company earned a "Global RepTrak Pulse" score of zero to 100, representing an average measure of people's feelings for it.

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Thus a perfectly symmetrical face, with eyes, lips and nostrils exactly the same distance from the central line, would earn a score of zero.

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The Calculation: To quantify the data, I measured each of those four statistics (YTD return, number of up days, standard deviation, and maximum drawdown) against all other stocks and gave them a score from zero to 100.

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While the scores ranged from zero to 30, a score greater than eight was seen by doctors as a sign that the person was at risk of clinical depression.

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Based on this assessment, the CRI calculates a score for each MSA that ranges from zero to 100.

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