"Kevin Wampler" <wam### [at] uwashingtonedu> wrote in message 
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> There's some interesting (if basic) analysis at 538 suggesting that the 
> results of the survey were fake anyway:
>
> http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/09/are-oklahoma-students-really-this-dumb.html
>
> It looks relatively convincing to me, so good news! Oklahoma students 
> aren't in quite that bad shape.
>
>
> There's an analysis of the analysis here:
>
> http://blog.smellthedata.com/2009/09/analysis-of-pollster-fraud-and-oklahoma.html
>
> But at the very least it seems quite fishy that none of the 1000 students 
> were able to get more than 7 out of the 10 questions right. There's some 
> further arguments at 538 as well for those interested:
>
> http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/09/strategic-vision-polls-exhibit-unusual.html
> http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/09/comparison-study-unusual-patterns-in.html

I did see that an Oklahoma student had commented that the
test results were correct, and that his fellow students were willfully
stupid. Essentially there was a lot of peer pressure to fail or
ignore tests, and that probably means that the results are not a
valid measure of knowledge. Instead, the results indicate a
failure of the teachers.

Someone should tell the kids that if they don't take learning
more seriously people will think they're all retards.

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