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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]In general, whenever you ask people to take a critical look at themselves- the reaction is defensive.

To ask DCUM users if a critique of DCUM users is accurate is naturally not going to end well. Asking people if they are in privileged bubble is not going to go well. Because if you are in a bubble, by definition you do not know that you are.

In general I have found many on this board to be totally blind to the realities of DC Public Schools and blind to your own motivations  behind how you move in this space. Is it segregation- kinda sorta. But mostly in the way that we would all select calm.caring, and safe places for our own children.

I think the rub comes in with it is juxtaposed with the self identification as a liberal community with a strong NIMBY action plan.[/quote]

What you say is true, but does not rule out that the study is still flawed and unfair. Even you are not completely willing to agree with the report's conclusion.

What this report "reveals" is that a group of largely white, largely affluent posters who primarily live in largely white, largely affluent neighborhoods mostly talk about their local schools which are are largely white, largely affluent. It is true that largely white, largely affluent posters do not spend a lot of time talking about schools in parts of the city in which they do not live and which have poor academic outcomes. Why it took them four years and a word frequency analysis of 10 years worth of posts to figure this out is beyond me.

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This was my takeaway too:
[i]A group of people on a forum talk about things that they know about. [/i]

If they had any kind of actual data - like demographics of who is posting, or how many posters there are, how many people dominate conversations, etc. that would have moved the needle somewhat to show something that was independent of self-reporting.

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