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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]I'd remove the language about you being targeted. To be blunt, you may feel that way but it does not really matter. The issues here are agnostic to your feelings: (a) the authors were not up front with you, didn't tell you they would scrape/save the site, and also quoted specific posts after saying they wouldn't (according to what you wrote earlier) and (b) in your opinion their methodology is shoddy, for reasons x, y, and z.[/quote]

I changed the wording of that sentence a bit. I am just trying to explain why I am more than simply a casual observer. I am not only the site owner, but someone who participates in the forum and a parent who has struggled with the school-decision process. In the minds of the report's authors, I am a segregationist.
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I think it's better now. I don't live in DC, and am just a long-time DCUM fan. From that vantage point, I still feel the post comes across as a bit overly emotional at times, and suggest rereading it tomorrow morning with a dispassionate eye. In my view, as a DC outsider, this is just a disappointing paper that is below the standards of Brookings (certainly I will be more skeptical of their papers going forward). Most people will understand that word frequency analysis without sufficient contextual controls is shoddy practice if you point it out, and the authors don't seem to have controlled for context. I understand your emotional response, in your roles both as a parent and as the site owner, but I think that you may be giving badly done research a bit too much credence with an emotional response. If you want to respond on the site, my unsolicited advice is that I would make it shorter, focus on the numerous methodological flaws, and leave it at that.

It's really unfortunate because I think a thoughtfully done analysis up to the prior standards of Brookings could have been insightful and useful. Instead I feel like the authors have been unthoughtful about serious issues of educational access and equity. It's sad.[/quote]

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