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Post hoc rides again: A methodological critique of “Fifteen thousand hours: Secondary schools and their effects on children”

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Cuttance, P.F. Post hoc rides again: A methodological critique of “Fifteen thousand hours: Secondary schools and their effects on children”. Qual Quant 15, 315–334 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00144059

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