> I would expect people to have more questions and want to learn more...
There is no need for that since most people with an interest in the topic and the general techie-community type of intellect will be able to answer almost any possible interesting question on the topic for themselves and even quickly disprove your claims without needing any further information besides what you provided.
The very first wrong thing is your conclusion, quote:
> these students go on to have success in college and jobs
So far you've only shown college enrollment, which has nothing to do with success in or after college, as it is, looking at the entire USA, completely a matter of cashflow.
Further, your claim that there is no disadvantage is disproved by yourself when you state a data point that puts the "success" of that school below what would be expected from a private school.
In other words, to answer your titular question of:
> How Does This Not Blow Your Mind?
It doesn't because we don't possess your biases and do not easily delude ourselves into your conclusions.
Next time you try to prove something, please bring along actual numbers and comparisons.
Ok, so would you predict that most of those who get accepted to college flunk out or are unable to get jobs?
I can certainly appreciate that this might not actually be "mind-blowing", but personally I think even the college-acceptance rates are a surprising result.
The point is that you claim they are successful past college entrance (without qualifying in relation to what they are so) without providing ANY EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER.
Furthermore you just now conflated "acceptance" with merely "going on to" college and in the process ignored the number of those who didn't even try to get in and also ignored the simple fact that getting into a college (ANY COLLEGE) in the USA has literally nothing to do with student ability.
I apologize. I don't have specific stats to share on the college success. The books published by the school have a lot of anecdotal evidence regarding the students having success in college. They don't seem to have universal success or significantly greater success then their peers from other schools, but they do seem to be able to handle and graduate from college and have gone on to a wide-range of jobs.
I should not have simplified the argument to claim that they have universal success.
Cheers for taking my criticism and actually considering it. I hope it will influence your future writing positively. :)
Also, now that i think of it, let me make a recommendation. Please either read, or listen to the audiobook, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" about Richard P. Feynman. The latter part of the book discusses how even NASA accidentally deluded itself into making gross mistakes in the use of statistics and, if i remember correctly, describes at the very end a general philosophy and attitude towards science that would greatly improve your ability to contemplate and argue scientific matters.
There is no need for that since most people with an interest in the topic and the general techie-community type of intellect will be able to answer almost any possible interesting question on the topic for themselves and even quickly disprove your claims without needing any further information besides what you provided.
The very first wrong thing is your conclusion, quote:
> these students go on to have success in college and jobs
So far you've only shown college enrollment, which has nothing to do with success in or after college, as it is, looking at the entire USA, completely a matter of cashflow.
Further, your claim that there is no disadvantage is disproved by yourself when you state a data point that puts the "success" of that school below what would be expected from a private school.
In other words, to answer your titular question of:
> How Does This Not Blow Your Mind?
It doesn't because we don't possess your biases and do not easily delude ourselves into your conclusions.
Next time you try to prove something, please bring along actual numbers and comparisons.