diff --git a/man7/sched.7 b/man7/sched.7
index e13d11378..7673af868 100644
--- a/man7/sched.7
+++ b/man7/sched.7
@@ -86,9 +86,8 @@ and
 The scheduler is the kernel component that decides which runnable thread
 will be executed by the CPU next.
 Each thread has an associated scheduling policy and a \fIstatic\fP
-scheduling priority, \fIsched_priority\fP; these are the settings
-that are modified by
-.BR sched_setscheduler ().
+scheduling priority,
+.IR sched_priority .
 The scheduler makes its decisions based on knowledge of the scheduling
 policy and static priority of all threads on the system.