I think the mere fact this so called investigation hasn't been quoted, referred to or even mentioned in any other media is enough to discredit it as just another example of poor journalism.
Oliver Barry, CRS, GRI Real Estate Broker Halo Realty, LLC 700 E. Main St. Hendersonville TN 37075 [email protected] office: 615-822-3509 fax: 615-822-7741 mobile: 615-972-4239 ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Vega Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 1:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [gatortalk] Re: [gatornews] AJC investigation: Many athletes lag far behind on SAT scores On Dec 29, 2008, at 11:15 AM, Woody wrote: AJC investigation: Many athletes lag far behind on SAT scores By MIKE KNOBLER <mailto:[email protected]> The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Sunday, December 28, 2008 Football and men's basketball players on the nation's big-time college teams averaged hundreds of points lower on their SATs than their classmates, and some of the gaps are so large they call into question the lengths to which schools will go to win. <snip> Hewitt says the only fair comparison is between athletes and other students with similar socioeconomic backgrounds. Seen that way, he argues, athletics programs perform very well. Black athletes, for example, graduate at higher rates than black students as a whole. "To insinuate that athletics has caused this problem of poor graduation rates [among black students] is wrong," Hewitt said. This appears to me to hit on the real problem with this type of investigation; simply put - correlation does not prove causation. 55% of all student athletes are minorities, the composition of the student body as a whole is quite different. For such an "investigation" to have any sort of merit, the composition of the student body should have been normalized to match the student-athlete pool. Otherwise, we may be observing an issue related to social or economic background and mislabeling it as an athletics problem. -Zeb --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ GATORS: ONE VOICE ON SATURDAY - NO VOICE ON SUNDAY! 1996 National Football Champions | 2006 National Basketball Champions 2006 National Football Champions | 2007 National Basketball Champions Three Heisman Trophy winners: Steve Spurrier (1966), Danny Wuerffel (1996), Tim Tebow (2007) - Visit our website at www.gatornet.us -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
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