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So you demand hard stats to back up the article, but when it comes to sweeping, unsupported statements, you have a feeling about it?

I'm left wondering why exactly you would conclude that a "huge portion" of homeschoolers live in isolated communities.

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A geographical breakdown of the data would probably be extremely helpful. I have a feeling there are isolated communities that make up a huge portion of home-schoolers.

You have to read the entire paragraph. He has a hypothesis about the geographical spread of homeschoolers (the feeling you mentioned), and he would have liked some data to test that. That's not the same as making a sweeping, unsupported statement on a feeling.

I did read the entire paragraph, thanks very much, but that's not what he said at all. If he had a reasoned prediction of a causal correlation, I might agree with you.

From another publication (Google it): "Using a division of the country according to migration patterns developed by Frey (2000), home schoolers are seen to be located in rural and suburban areas of the West..."

That was all I could find before posting my comment. I did search at length for a map and I couldn't find one.

Anyway, common sense says that the fewer the number of schools near you, the less likely you are to pick any of them--especially when there are no schools near you.