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[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]

It's a non-published, non-peer reviewed report from a person who [b]probably[/b] doesn't have an agenda.

The century paper is bad though.  It's just curve fitting without confidence bounds. The government tried something similar (much larger scale though) with the "Moving to opportunity " program and found no educational benefits.[/quote]

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