“I think you have an issue with humblegunner,...”
You have it backwards. It's humblegunner who has a problem with me. Try to actually read the posts that we exchanged.
“Are you doing this with me cos I’m easy and he isn’t?”
Nah. You present your own set of problems. Like lack of interest in the facts.
“I’m taking it as you dissing me from your post and I could be wrong, it’s possible and likely, yet I don’t think so here.”
Make up your mind. Do you think I'm “dissing” you or not?
It isn't my intention. But you made precisely one remark to me, accusing me of making it personal. I politely suggested that you go back and read the exchange and see who initiated the exchange, and thus, who made it personal.
You declined.
So I asked you to withdraw the remark.
You did, while getting snotty.
As well, you seem to have misrepresented the remarks of another poster in trying to defend his/her remarks. You said you agreed with those remarks.
I pointed out what the remarks actually were with which I'd taken issue. I asked you whether or not you agreed with them.
Do you agree with the poster's remarks that I posted?
“On average is always a qualifier to a bunch of bs or manipulation of the numbers, not taking correlating data into account, etc.”
No, sorry, “average” or “mean,” and “median” and other words like that have specific meanings (I actually took a bit more than introductory statistics), and are fairly used to compare groups.
You'll notice that I said that “on average, homeschoolers do better academically than public schoolchildren.” I didn't say why. That's where questions of causation versus correlation come into play. That would be an interesting discussion.
But before that discussion might proceed, it helps for folks to accept a basis of statistical facts. Like, on average, homeschoolers do better academically than public schoolchildren. The research has been done. That much has been established. If you, or humblegunner, or anyone else on this thread or elsewhere, prefer to refuse to acknowledge that statistical fact discovered through disinterested research, then, first, there is little basis for discussing the whys or issues of causation and correlation, and second, you will be burying your head in the sand, in denial of reality.
I have no intent to offend, but no intention of letting you say unchallenged things that aren't true, either.
sitetest
Nope, not you.
I have an issue with anyone who uses statistics or any other means to try to imply that their kids are superior to mine.
If you need to denigrate my kids to make yours look good, based solely on the manner in which they are educated, you begin with a weak premise.
Something about homeschooling makes the parents arrogant.
I simply choose to call them on it.