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"Rise from fringe to fastest-growing" seems like a math misunderstanding. Something that's small has the largest possibility of growing rapidly, expressed as a
by timerol 3y ago
"Rise from fringe to fastest-growing" seems like a math misunderstanding. Something that's small has the largest possibility of growing rapidly, expressed as a percentage. https://xkcd.com/1102/ https://xkcd.com/1102/
The article really doubles down on suspect use of numbers by talking about "[Hillsborough County, Fla] vote results have predicted the winner in 22 of the last 24 presidential elections. Now it is a harbinger of a different trend: the widespread adoption and acceptance of home schooling." Spurious election correlations make for bad articles.
Within that county since 2017 school enrollment has grown "3.4 percent, to 224,538 students." (about 7400 student increase), while homeschooling has grown 74%, up to 10,680 (growth of about 4500 students).