I was reading kuro5hin.org at one point, and some user had in his/her
signature a strange statement, along the lines of "High levels of
immigration cause lower test scores in schools" or something. The text
of the statement was linked to results(?) on a website. The site
apparently stored a lot of historical data along the lines of
population/year, population density/year, school test scores, etc.
Census data by time. Hopefully you get the idea.

Anyways, the interesting thing was, that this site allowed you to pick
some of these chunks of data, and it would find correlations between
them. For instance, you could pick population density, and school test
scores, and it would tell you that the best correlation between them
was the negative log of the population density and the cube root of
test scores. (Thats an exaggerated example.)

I'm looking for that site.

Its entirely possible I'm misremembering any one, or more, of the
details. But I hope I've at least given you an idea of what I'm
looking for. Honestly, it doesn't matter if you find the exact site
I've described, just so long as it has the same functionality, and a
significant amount of data.

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Request for Question Clarification by jeeagle-ga on 17 Dec 2003 12:32 PST

Can you remember any more details of either:

-What the exact wording of the signature quote was; or

-Which section of kuro5hin.org you found the quote in (it's a massive site...)

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Clarification of Question by jkominek-ga on 17 Dec 2003 14:07 PST

I think the sig had to do with immigration and schools, and was
phrased more like "immigration adversely affects schools", rather than
using any statistical phrasings.

For what its worth, it was in a comment on a story, *not* in a comment
on a diary entry. The poster commented on at least a few different
stories, and I can't remember which catagories they fell into.

It was sometime within the last two to two and a half years, also.
(Probably more like the past year and a half, but I can't guarantee
that.)

OK, I've tried a few variations on the search with no luck. Two possible leads:
- jkominek-ga, if you can remember anything more of the exact wording,
then you can search Google with what you remember of the wording plus
the search term "site:www.kuro5hin.org" (minus the quotes), which will
search only that site for the words you specify. I tried doing this
with various different wordings but couldn't find anything.

- kuro5hin.org are currently fixing their search engine. They don't
say how long it'll take, but when it's working again it'll be possible
to search within user comments for specified words. So that could find
what you're after.

could this be the site you're looking for?
http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d02_tf.asp

no, that nces.ed.gov site appears to provide just the sort of raw data
that this correlation finding site worked with. looks like it has lots
of nice raw info though, thanks.