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#TheMostDangerousEquation

bsmall2bsmall2@writing.exchange
2025-03-24

> In the late 1990s the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation began supporting small schools on a broad-ranging, intensive, national basis. By 2001, the Foundation had given grants to education projects totaling approximately $1.7 billion... There are many claims made about the advantages of smaller schools, but I will focus here on just one...
americanscientist.org/article/
#HowardWainer #TheMostDangerousEquation #BillGates #GatesFail #deMoivresEquation #uspol
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An image made with racket's latex-pict^1 in order to approximate the equation shown in Howard Wainer's article linked in the post. This is "de Moivre's equation" which is "the equation that provides us with the standard deviation of the sampling distribution of the mean.... (Note the square root symbol, which will be a key to at least one of the misunderstandings of variation.)". ^1 test-1.rkt in the repo directory: https://codeberg.org/bsmall2/statistics-class-notes/src/branch/main/racket/latex-pict

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