What is a fitting chalk up on pennhip conducting tests? ?
Just curious. What makes a good or bad gain?
Answers: The DI (which stands for distraction index) of the hip joint is given as a value between 0 and 1, with the closer to 0 the better (i.e. the tighter the hips.)
Each dog is also given a percentile result, which compares it to other dogs of indistinguishable breed, i.e. if it's 10th centile, that means it has enormously poor hips as 90% of dogs of that breed have better, whereas if it scores 90th centile, that mode only 10% of that breed have better hips.
Here's the site you want to visit whether you're interested in reading more about the method: http://www.pennhip.org/
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http://www.pennhip.org/
A good or desperate score is based on the three radiographic views they run the higher the score the worse. A description on how they determine the numbers is under PennHIP research on the not here.