A 2009 Stanford University report, lauded as most
authoritative research yet on the issue, concluded that 17 percent of the charter schools studied outperform public schools and 37 percent «deliver results that are significantly worse» than those expected of traditional public schools.
Professor Phil Jones, director of the Climatic
Research Unit, must have known that the data was a mess and hopelessly compromised by ad hoc fixes,
yet presented the Hadley / CRU historical global temperature dataset as
authoritative.