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Gunner
 
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Default Clark is correct

On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 08:32:04 GMT, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:

"Gunner" wrote in message
.. .

This is to Gunner: Don't waste your time with second-hand stats. They're

all
cooked to make somebody's point.

Go right to the source and get the raw data and analyses. You'll find it
he

http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2001/HomeSchool/


How do we know the numbers are not cooked?


Study, Gunner. Learn to read methodology, and to discriminate sources based
on their motivation, their exposure, and the consequences of fudging their
work.


'Lots of surprises.


Such as?


Read and learn.

I did.

What did you find surprising?

Ed Huntress


Gunner

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To be incapable of committing mayhem is not the mark of the civilized,
merely the domesticated." - Trefor Thomas