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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Giving data a bad name. Misleading testing article goes viral. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Giving data a bad name. Misleading testing article goes viral. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Giving data a bad name. Misleading testing article goes viral.

A headline in Friday’s NY Times caught my attention.

To Really Learn, Quit Studying and Take a Test.

It was in the Times’ Science section. It could just have been the ad on late night television claiming you can lose weight by holding shaking dumb bells.

But the problem was that the research wasn’t