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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]I assume that you are one of the authors so would you mind ending the charade and letting us know which one?

Scholars are judged by their work. I don't care about credentials. What do you say about the inherent sampling errors resulting from the geographic concentration of our user base? What do you say about the failure to correct samples for school size? What do you say about the fact that the report compares attention to charter schools which draw upon the entire District for their students to neighborhood schools that draw from a defined boundary? These are all basic data analysis errors that don't require a Harvard education to identify (and, to be clear, I found them and have no such education).

Please drop the condescension. There are legitimate problems with this report. It may hurt your feelings to acknowledge them, but this is not about feelings -- yours or mine.
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so sticking with option b[/quote]

LOL. So typical. Credentials don't replace substance. Get back to us when you have something substantive to contribute.
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quick switch there from "I love when posters are honest and treat me like the adult that I am"

do you want to broaden the demographics of your forum of being for rich white people or don't you?[/quote]

Yes, but I need no advice from a hack academic whose only work of which I am aware is full of basic data analysis errors that nobody is willing to address.
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I can't remember what it's called when your way to win an argument is to call the other person names ??

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DP. I've been looking around a lot and I am not finding any academics who believe the methodology of this study was good. At best, people say it is shoddy in parts. Normally I would expect to see some debate about methodology at least, but the only really debate seems to be phrased as "well, yes, it was badly done but the conclusions are important anyhow." I rarely see that sort of agreement in academia.

Why do you think Jeff should take this person's advice when there seems to be consensus that the study was badly done? I am not Jeff but I wouldn't want to take advice from someone with that kind of history.

I don't disagree with the proposal to discuss but why would you credit this particular author? [/quote]

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