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In one particularly egregious example, a student spent three years in ninth grade and then was promoted straight to eleventh grade—a deviously clever way of keeping a weak student from taking a tenth-grade benchmark exam without forcing him to drop out (which would have showed up on a different statistic).
Naked Statistics Stripping the Dread From the Data
Wheelan, Charles
Because cities are very concerned about being left behind, they often perceive themselves to have less leverage in those negotiations than the firm. So they essentially say, 'great, you guys can extract data if we get this infrastructure for free.' No city that I know of has thought really seriously about the value [that they are giving up].
Smart Cities or Surveillance Cities?
planning.org
Buildings change, but parking could be built only once, so it was always built to the maximum potential occupancy of the building. And it was built to accommodate the peak moment of demand for that maximum occupancy. And both those figures were derived in places where people already drove everywhere.
Paved Paradise
Henry Grabar
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