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Charter Schools and Averages

By Stuart Buck, Esq.

We often hear that something has no overall effect on something else -- education, health, whatever -- but it seems to me that in a world with widely varying individuals and situations, the overall mean effect isn't very interesting or useful. At least not as often as some people seem to think. For example, we might hear that a certain kind of medicine has no overall survival benefit, which is the reason that the FDA moved to block to approval of Avastin to treat metastatic breast cancer. But even if there is little overall mean effect, Avastin could still cause a remission in a few people: Christi Turnage of Madison, Miss., said her cancer has been undetectable for more than two years since starting therapy with Avastin. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in June 2006 and began taking the drug in 2008 after the tumors spread, or metastized, to her lungs...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Buck Stops Here on March 09, 2011 (boomark / email).