In case you don't take the time to look through all the posts, here is
something relevant to what you posted ...
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From: <hibbert@netcom.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Cc: <hibbert@netcom.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 2:41 PM
Subject: Re: Paying for Schools
>
> On the subject of time series for literacy rates:
>
> Sorry Mike. You objected to Pat's sources of data and pointed to other
> sources. You then compared the recent statistics in your preferred
sources
> to the earlier statistics in Pat's, and claimed that that showed the trend
> you believed. If his oranges aren't any good, you can't prove anything by
> comparing your apples to them.
>
> I didn't look for very long, but I didn't find time series at the URLs you
> posted. Can you say where the time series are buried, so we can tell
> according to this (you claim) more objective standard what has happened
> over time? The interesting question is what has happened to levels of
> literacy according to any unchanging standard of what it means to be
> literate. If some unvarying standards show improvement and others show
> degradation, we can argue about the merits of the different standards, but
> until we see a series that shows the same standard being applied at
> different times, we haven't learned much about changes in literacy.
>
> Chris
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