William T Goodall wrote:
>
> On Friday, August 29, 2003, at 09:34 pm, Kevin Tarr wrote:
>
> > (I know, English isn't his first language)(And I'm not assuming he is
> > Democrat, but 41 percent of the other teacher's failed and I'd lay
> > odds that more than half of those who failed are.)
> >
>
> Because they are college graduates?
Nice burn, William. :)
Most teachers in the US are Democrats. (Going by the 51% rule, I think
that's a fairly safe statement, and my impression, which *may* be wrong,
is that teachers are more likely to be Democrats than random people
picked out of the general population.) And I'd expect more of them to
be so in Massachusetts (where the problem pointed out by the article
is), although it's been a number of years since I've lived near enough
to there to have a good feel for the political climate. If the
probability of failing the exam is independent of political party, then
that was a safe bet for Kevin to make.
Julia
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