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Re:Olin College Produces Founders at Five Times the Rate of ... by koolba on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @12:09PM (#15184748)
With enough tiny schools you can find outliers for anything.

Give me the stats and I'll show you why a seemingly random school is the epicenter of modern opioid addiction.

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Re:Olin College Produces Founders at Five Times the Rate of ... by btilly on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @03:22PM (#15186384)
There aren't enough tiny schools to explain this result.

The p-value against this result if this school was as good as Stanford by pure chance is 1/10k. There are only 3k 4 year colleges in the USA. The vast majority of which are significantly worse than Stanford.

It is therefore extremely unlikely that pure chance alone would explain this data point.

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