Lies, damned lies, and the Pacific Research Institute
Often, it takes a bit of time to uncover statistical flummery; one needs to dig deep inside arcane methods or the details of data collection. But sometimes it takes just a few clicks. Matthew Ladner’s blog entry today, $243,000 per student school districts?, quoted work by the Pacific Research Institute that claimed two small districts […]
Not closing up shop just yet
Kevin Carey’s Chronicle column this week, What Colleges Should Learn From Newspapers’ Decline reminds me too much of Willard Daggett’s slipshod prognostication: oh, yes, there will be surgery-by-wire where you can stay in Podunk while a surgeon in New York City opens up your heart (something close to what Daggett claimed in one speech I […]