Nearly Half Of Detroiters illiterate.

[Kuciwalker]

You assume that education is the service being purchased (at the margin).

[giblets]

Yeah, why else would someone move into an area with high property taxes?

[Felch]

Maybe they work nearby and they don't want to commute from the ghetto.

You do realize that there are other factors in buying a home besides nearby schools, right? Asher is getting a house, and I seriously doubt he gives a **** what the schools in his area are like.

[Boris Godunov]

the correlation of well-funded schools to performance is so strong as to make it ludicrous to deny that it's a huge factor in success rates.

Correlation does not equal causation. In this case, there's at least one other plausible driver that could explain the correlation between well-funded schools and student performance.

I'm aware of that, which is why I used the word "correlation," and pointed to it as one of several factors, not the sole one. Even so:

Analysis does show funding is relevant to performance

[Boris Godunov]

Another large correlation: voting Republican and income.

Not really.

[Thoth]

Another large correlation: voting Republican and income.

So in other words, rich douchbags vote Republican and poor douchebags vote Democrat?


It will be a fine day for "democracy" when you Yankeestanyites get a real choice when you vote.

In the meantime, remember that a "two party" state isn't all that much different from a "one party" state.

"The war against Oceania has reached measurable distance from it's end"

[giblets]

In the meantime, remember that a "two party" state isn't all that much different from a "one party" state.

Err... in a two party state politicians have to worry about getting re-elected while in a one party state they don't. That sounds like a significant difference.

[Tupac Shakur]

I'm aware of that, which is why I used the word "correlation," and pointed to it as one of several factors, not the sole one.

While this doesn't really succeed in walking back your ridiculous claim, at least you have the intellectual honesty to attempt to do so.

[Boris Godunov]

So in other words, rich douchbags vote Republican and poor douchebags vote Democrat?

If there was even such a mere correlation, Republicans wouldn't ever win elections, given the relative population of rich vs. poor.

[Thoth]

Err... in a two party state politicians have to worry about getting re-elected while in a one party state they don't. That sounds like a significant difference.

That only applies if there is a difference between the two parties.

Demopublicans and Republicrats look pretty much the same from up here.

[Boris Godunov]

I'm aware of that, which is why I used the word "correlation," and pointed to it as one of several factors, not the sole one.

While this doesn't really succeed in walking back your ridiculous claim, at least you have the intellectual honesty to attempt to do so.

So you think I'm "walking back" something for which I provided an actual link to evidence to support? Strange idea.

[Kuciwalker]

Yeah, why else would someone move into an area with high property taxes?

The service being purchased could be e.g. entertainment for their children.

[Jon Miller]

Except I constantly hear about people moving to places with high property taxes for the education benefits and never for the entertainment benefits.

JM

[Tupac Shakur]

So you think I'm "walking back" something for which I provided an actual link to evidence to support? Strange idea.

As expected, the study you linked in no way proves that increased funding is a "huge factor" in student success rates.

[Kuciwalker]

Except I constantly hear about people moving to places with high property taxes for the education benefits and never for the entertainment benefits.

JM

Of course people don't say that they want their school funding to go towards entertainment. Revealed preferences, Jon. Look at what school money actually pays for, and try to explain how much of that plausibly translates into human capital investment.