It's amazing how willing Republicans are to turn themselves into pretzels to not be "racist." There was a school board meeting where one of the board members was going on about reading test scores being low and blaming them on parents not reading to their kids, which is some "wet streets cause rain" type thinking. Anyone who spoke the truth which is no school system with our demographics will ever have good test scores would become unelectable and unemployable. So we're doomed to eternal clown shows of people blaming everything when no problem even exists.
There's a minutephysics video on Simpson's Paradox that I'm actually a little shocked he hasn't taken down. He shows some education test scores for Texas and Wisconsin. Graphing just the test scores showed Texas with significantly worse scores. Then he showed them broken out by race and for every race Texas had better test scores for any given race. He then repeated the crimestop mantra "socio economic factors."
Graphing just the test scores showed Texas with significantly worse scores. Then he showed them broken out by race and for every race Texas had better test scores for any given race.
I don't know if there's something I'm just not understanding here, but I don't see how it's possible to have higher scores in every subcategory without having higher scores in the combined category.
Without examining the data, I can't verify, but it could work out like this:
Wisconsin: 60% North European, 20% West European, 20% Hispanic
Average North European score: 100
Average West European score: 100
Average Hispanic score: 80
Wisconsin Average: 96
Texas: 20% North European, 30% West European, 50% Hispanic
Average North European score: 105
Average West European score: 105
Average Hispanic score: 85
Texas Average: 95
It's amazing how willing Republicans are to turn themselves into pretzels to not be "racist." There was a school board meeting where one of the board members was going on about reading test scores being low and blaming them on parents not reading to their kids, which is some "wet streets cause rain" type thinking. Anyone who spoke the truth which is no school system with our demographics will ever have good test scores would become unelectable and unemployable. So we're doomed to eternal clown shows of people blaming everything when no problem even exists.
There's a minutephysics video on Simpson's Paradox that I'm actually a little shocked he hasn't taken down. He shows some education test scores for Texas and Wisconsin. Graphing just the test scores showed Texas with significantly worse scores. Then he showed them broken out by race and for every race Texas had better test scores for any given race. He then repeated the crimestop mantra "socio economic factors."
I don't know if there's something I'm just not understanding here, but I don't see how it's possible to have higher scores in every subcategory without having higher scores in the combined category.
Without examining the data, I can't verify, but it could work out like this:
Wisconsin: 60% North European, 20% West European, 20% Hispanic
Average North European score: 100
Average West European score: 100
Average Hispanic score: 80
Wisconsin Average: 96
Texas: 20% North European, 30% West European, 50% Hispanic
Average North European score: 105
Average West European score: 105
Average Hispanic score: 85
Texas Average: 95
Ah, interesting, okay. Now that I see numbers it does make a lot of sense.