| richardhutnik said: tarheel, do you really want to look up the numbers? If so, go here (Put the URL below in a web browser if you can't click on the link): http://studentloanjustice.org/press release7-20-10.htm That goes the the full article by student loan justice: Try to click on this here to bring it up also. In that is info, and a link to a Word doc on it, and check out Appendix A in it. You can review the entire word doc, which I believe is an Inspector General report from the last 90s into early last decade. Appendix A has the gross default rate.
Sorry for this reply like this. This was in my original message. |
The article you linked me to is a follow up article based on the article in the OP. It is not the original article.
The original article says this: "According to unpublished data obtained by The Chronicle..."
That means they have the data. And yet they're not going to publish it? If they didn't do the study themselves, there should be information about how the study was performed in the original article. If they did the study themselves, they should be able to supply the methods used.
The word document you linked me to is simply the paper about the original research by the government. It's well documented in every regard. The numbers and methods are entirely transparent. That's how statistics is supposed to be done. Notice that you see none of that in the Chronicle's article, just some graphs they've borrowed without context. That is not acceptable statistics, and whether they're right or not this "study" doesn't prove anything one way or the other.
