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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because you have no connection with DCPS, I'm curious how you found yourself in the DC schools thread and why you decided to track the Hardy discussion so much. Are you doing this for a class or something? [/quote]

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I have a colleague who was doing the lottery for his children. They are in-bounds to a school in Columbia Heights (that I will purposely not name). We ended up talking about middle schools and that prompted me to look into them in DC.

As for why I know lots of data, besides being interested in quantitative analysis: I have a very, very good memory so that whenever I saw someone link to a data set, I looked at it and took account of what it contained.

Why today? I was reading a Hardy thread (they all seem to degrade into the same morass of statements lacking any empirical basis) a few nights ago when someone linked to those DCPS data sets. I decided to look at the data myself, so I came into work early, took some Ritalin (it's true; the benefits of an anonymous forum) and preceding to spend the morning obsessed with Hardy predictions. [/quote]

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