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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] 'Scrape a website, do some analysis' is the correct way to go at all kinds of questions.[/quote]

Oh, I agree.

Specifically, though: 'Scrape a website, count words' is NOT the correct way to get to this question or anything related to it. Seriously, Claude Shannon was building (not that useful) Markov models of word context in 1948, and those went beyond counting words.   In this case some more cutting-edge text analysis might have actually been helpful.
But also, the questions are bad.  It's both.[/quote]

It’s because clearly all the researchers wanted was more fuel to pour on the dumpster fire of racism and education in DC. Looks like they’ve accomplished that.

Honestly, the report makes me want to defend dcum in a way that I never would have dreamed. I think Jeff’s points are valid. DC parents are stuck between a rock and a hard place. The responsibility never lies with individuals for systemic policy issues like this; good policy helps people make decisions that need to be made collectively. It’s kind of like recycling; I can’t save the environment alone I need a citywide program to recycle. We don’t have good leadership at the citywide level. We’ve pushed things into this bizarre “choice” aka lottery and charter system, and shocker, people are using it. Each individual making a rational non-racist choice causes a whole system to lean toward segregation. But we knew that.

Let me see a proper social scientist - not these jokers, not some podcaster - try to find out what is going on and offer some policy ideas. We can’t really on individual parents to solve centuries of our checkered past. [/quote]

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