At 09:47 PM 08/20/2002 -0400, you wrote:
Numers don't tell lies because numbers don't make propositions - people
do. I don't see how this is a counter-example, either. I provided figures
for both the % of high school graduates proceeding directly to college and
the % of all 25-29 year-olds who
Ian Murray wrote:
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You forgot partying.:-)
This may be an instance of offering as an explanation what in fact is
itself in need of explanation. Why should there be so much more binge
drinking, for example, in the last 20 years than in the 1940s? 1950s?
I.e., Partying
This may be an instance of offering as an explanation what in fact is
itself in need of explanation. Why should there be so much more binge
drinking, for example, in the last 20 years than in the 1940s? 1950s?
for the same reason that a dog licks its bollocks?
(apologies to all; this message is
Carrol Cox wrote:
I.e., Partying doesn't really explain anything. Rather, it is something
to explain.
I think this can be expanded to cover another recent thread on either
pen-l or lbo -- a discussion of stupidity (ref., I think, IMF
bureaucrats or Neoclassical economists in general).
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Ian Murray wrote:
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You forgot partying.:-)
This may
Ian Murray wrote:
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Jokes do not explain and all attempts to explain how jokes work have
failed. Damn! :-)
Actually, I got the joke -- but it triggered a question I had pondered
in the past.
Not ony do jokes not explain (at least in e-mail) but responses don't
include the
At 10:58 AM 08/20/2002 -0400, you wrote:
I don't think 57% is right. The percentage of high-school graduates
enrolled in college for the subsequent year was at a high of 67% in 1997,
and over 60% ever since (see ftp://146.142.4.23/pub/news.release/hsgec.txt
for latest figures), and the
At 03:47 PM 08/20/2002 -0400, you wrote:
About 66% of high school graduates get some college education, but not
everyone graduates from high school. Counting the high school dropout
rate, it's about 57% of young Americans who get some college education.
Big numbers can tell big lies. In
At 03:47 PM 8/20/2002 -0400, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
I don't think 57% is right. The percentage of high-school graduates
enrolled in college for the subsequent year was at a high of 67% in 1997,
and over 60% ever since (see
ftp://146.142.4.23/pub/news.release/hsgec.txt for latest figures), and
20 August 2002 21:08 UTC.
YOSHIE: At 03:47 PM 08/20/2002 -0400, you wrote: About 66% of high
school graduates get some college education, but not everyone
graduates from high school. Counting the high school dropout rate,
it's about 57% of young Americans who get some college education.
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