That, in itself, may be no bad thing, but it makes their ill-informed attack on economic analysis particularly galling.

ECONOMIST: Fish out of water

But critics fear that students and teachers will be penalized for bad scores on tests they are ill-prepared for, and some parents are refusing to let their children take the tests.

WSJ: Some NY parents to boycott new, harder state tests

It would be worthless not because you are a bad person or because you had some sort of dastardly ill intent, but because it was built on a flatly inaccurate impression of objective reality.

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