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The story is tragically ironic given the Gates Foundation history with the so-called "Small Schools Myth": https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/20

• gowld 8y ago
  I wonder how much Gates was blinded by bias -- Gates himself attended a small... expensive, private school.
  • t3h2mas 8y ago
    I'm listening to "Thinking Fast and Slow" right now. In it, the author talks about Gates school study, and others, as well as bias. The author claims that small sample sets always produce the most extreme results, and while statisticians know this, measurements continue to happen using smaller data sets. The author also claims that you could find data to support smaller schools being worse than larger ones due to the same issue. Great book. It leaves me questioning the 'why' behind everything I think I know.
    • iooi 8y ago
      Careful with drawing too many conclusions from that book. Your take away is pretty ironic, considering that was Kahneman's problem: "I placed too much faith in underpowered studies" [1] [1] https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-train-wreck-how-priming-research-went-of-the-rails/comment-page-1/#comment-1454 https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2017/02/02/reconstruc...
      • tylerhou 8y ago
        Chapter 4 contained most of the errors on priming; the rest of the book is still solid.