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Today’s Quiz: Can You Spot The Flaw In This Reasoning?

August 11th, 2010 · 23 Comments
Education · Fun With Data

Ezra Klein posts the following graph:

The caption on the graph and the post is “The benefits of a college degree in one graph.” You mission, if you choose to accept it: Explain, in 200 words or less, what is wrong with this line of reasoning. (I’ve always been curious as to which readers [...]

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How Does Online Instruction Compare To “Real” Education? Researchers Can Tell Us…

July 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Education · Markets

Apparently virtual instruction isn’t as much of an educational armageddon as some people seem to believe…researchers David Figlio, Mark Rush and Lu Yin performed an experiment at the university level and found very modest (and not always statistically significant) effects for in-person versus online instruction.

I am trying to be careful to not overgeneralize the results [...]

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