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Evgeny on Nov 17, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Shameful Innumeracy in the New York Times

So we could spend all the money and happily report that as a result of huge investments in education half of all low-income students now have above average test scores - a great improvement indeed!

thaumaturgy on Nov 18, 2009 [–]

Hmm. Half of all students in middle- to high-income families now have below-average test scores.

Clearly there must be no correlation between income and intelligence!

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