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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the people who discredit the report because it was a capstone report, please read the report.  After you read it, please tell us why one should not believe its conclusion.   Did the report cherry picked the data?  Did the author use murky stats? Was the conclusion not based on facts?

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Read this one, and then please tell us why one should not believe its conclusion.

https://tcf.org/assets/downloads/tcf-Schwartz.pdf[/quote]

Because it's a non-published, non-peer reviewed report from an organization with an agenda.  It's clear from this report that they crunched the data until they found a "threshold" at which they could write a report that fit their agenda.[/quote]

I'm a researcher (Ph.D. with a few dozen published papers).  I only quickly skimmed it, but in addition to not being peer-reviewed, it seems they only picked a few schools.  It's hard to draw conclusions beyond these few schools that are generalizable to the larger school system.  I also may have missed it, but I don't see any limitations listed, which is a standard part of peer-reviewed published papers.

I also noticed that the author concludes that "the hypothesis is false."  It appears the author doesn't have a good handle on standard research methods.  You can't conclude that a hypothesis is false; you can only say that it wasn't supported by the current data.

No school system would make changes based on a single, not peer-reviewed master's thesis.[/quote]
I don't even have advanced training in the social sciences (just did psychology/political science for my undergraduate majors), and even I know this paper is useless. It certainly would not have received a passing grade in any of the UNDERGRAD classes I took...[/quote]

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