I ran across a fairly boring and somewhat slanted article on education policy, but it did have this gem of a paragraph:
Critics also worry about the studies left out of the reading panel's scope. Of 100,000 studies first culled by the panel, all but experimental research that adhered to the scientific method were eliminated. That left around 40.
Given that I did not go to a public school, I can easily calculate that
about 1/25th of 1% of all studies adhere to the scientific method.
*sigh*
The sad thing is, this comes from an article attacking a mandate that
schools must use a reading program supported by "scientifically based
research". The horror... The very next line in the article has this lovely
quote: "It's raising quantifiable data to the equivalent of a truth..."
(Via Joanne Jacobs)