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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The statement "anyone could have checked the box, therefore the data is illegitimate" is non-falsifiable and therefore has no place in this discussion.

Things you don't know:

1) Whether or not anyone actually did this - the largest beneficiary of ED bonus points were Asians, so if you believe this happened, you're charging the Asian community with malfeasance

2) Whether or not the admissions office actually used a crude self-reporting mechanism to determine eligibility for bonus points

It appears to be a defining feature of the Coalition that they will insert a conspiracy theory wherever they can possibly come up with one.[/quote]

Your fixation with the Coalition is your problem.  I have nothing to do with the Coalition.  If you can get FCPS to clarify the basis of their claim that more lower-income kids were admitted then this discussion is moot.  Historically, FCPS has relied on FARMS data as a proxy for lower-income kids.  That is the basis for us to assume that the same was done here.  And I am pointing out that FARMS data is corrupted because of the poorly worded question. Garbage-in, garbage out.

Whether anyone actually responded yes or not is moot.  If the process is corrupt,  any output coming out of the process is corrupt.  Which really is the argument against this “reform”.  The entire process is corrupt and therefore no credibility can be attached to the outcomes.   Which by the way is a basic principle of law. [/quote]

Word-salad nonsense.

Did not address the question of whether or not you are accusing Asians of malfeasance.

And additionally, FCPS compiles an incredible amount of demographic data on each of these students every year, as does every other school district - but they still ask the questions of the applicants. Shall we further litigate whether or not the students actually belong to the race that they indicated? Or whether or not they actually live at the addresses that they put on the application form?

FCPS publishes hard data, and your standard for backing up their data is higher than your standard for backing up your completely baseless assertion. If you took them to court over their claims for misrepresentation, the burden of proof would be on YOU to show that their data is corrupt. You're grasping at straws here, and it's an embarrassing look.

And if you don't want to be tied to the Coalition, then stop parroting their talking points like some stooge.[/quote]

Hyberbole does not substitute for hard data.  You obviously never learnt that.

All this “incredible” demographic data that you say that FCPS collects - can you point us to what they relied on to make their claim on more lower income kids being admitted? They have no access to anyone’s tax returns so I am really curious what their data-crunching algorithm is that yields the information that you claim has such high standards.

I may not have any affiliation with the Coalition but have great regard for them in exposing virtue-signaling hypocrites like you that care less about kids and more about ideology.  [/quote]

Of course I have no idea what FCPS used to generate that information, but it’s almost certainly the exact same method that they used to determine that the class before was 0.6% FARMS. And no one had any problem with that method then.

The bottom line is that you don’t have a reason to be suspicious in this case - except for the fact that you just don’t like the numbers.[/quote]

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