Re: [Phys-L] Private schools

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

On 2012, Jul 11, , at 13:00, Ze'ev Wurman wrote:

> On 7/11/2012 10:44 AM, John Denker wrote:
> > On 07/11/2012 06:07 AM, Anthony Lapinski wrote:
> > > What is the rationale behind parents seeking private schools in the FIRST
> > > place?
> > Further support for this hypothesis comes from the observation that
> > many of the same people who are pushing for charters and vouchers
> > are simultaneously pushing other policies that are guaranteed to
> > result in the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer.
>
> This is a populist political speechifying masquerading as an objective analysis.
>
> Are the Democrats for Education Reform after trying to make the rich getting richer? Many deeply conservative people reject vouchers and charters as they recognize that they will inevitably come with government strings. Do religious school founders promote rich getting richer? Somehow all the physics-related analytical skills seem gone when it comes to social science...
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Ze'  W is treating a sociological statement as if it were a maths. conjecture.   A single counter example "destroys" a maths conjecture, but not a sociological claim.


bc always understands a claim about behaviour is a generalization of majority behaviour.