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Direct linkBracey, Gerald W. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2006
It is curious that so many people are accepting of statistics despite Disraeli's famous aphorism concerning "three kinds of lies." This acceptance certainly seems to hold for education statistics, especially when they imply something negative about American public schools. Sometimes people accept statistics because they are not in a position to…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Statistics, Correlation, Rhetoric
