This is a statistics observation, not a statement for or against any particular form of education.
It isn't statistical evidence because the sample size is too small. If you want a statistical observation you are going to need to look at thousands of home-schoolers compared to thousands of publicly educated students.
“It isn’t statistical evidence because the sample size is too small”
I didn’t posit it as statistical evidence. I observed the numbers, and having known kids who have attended the bee, I know a little (albeit indirectly) about what it takes to win such an event.
The poster I replied to gave these numbers on school makeup:
School Type:
192 public (67.13%)
38 private (13.29%)
36 home (12.59%)
14 parochial (4.9%)
5 charter (1.75%)
1 virtual (.34%)
I’d say that this is not a statistically invalid population...but that’s as far as I would go in describing it.