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Some people are clearly not accepting the premise that the standards stayed the same but they are doing so based on their own suspicions/biases/opinion, not based on actual data that we have access to.  My point is only that we do not know that any students were admitted with statistically significant lower scores than students who were denied, and that to assume this is what happened based on the race of students admitted is not in fact logically reasoning from the data currently available, but rather making leaps of logic based on prejudice or suspicion of MCPS generally.[/quote]

The reasoning is as follows:

Premise: The only way to increase the number of low-income kids, African-American/black kids, and Latino/Hispanic kids in the magnets is to lower the standards.
Conclusion: Therefore, if the number of low-income kids, African-American/black kids, and Latino/Hispanic kids in the magnets increased, that proves that MCPS lowered the standards.

I think that this is an example of begging the question.[/quote]

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