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GothamSchools Geeks Out on Sampling Error!

Philissa Cramer totally geeks out over at GothamSchools, and posts a great figure showing that smaller schools were more likely to experience wild swings in their school grades. Head over and check it out.

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Central Limit Theorem, what up!

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