Quoting EE with an uncited quote allegedly attributable to me doesn’t cut it. Link to my actual post where I cited something, if you want to say it’s my source. If you want to retract the claim that it’s my cite but still use it to advance your own claim, then link to the source itself so I can see the context and verify the numbers.
This is basic stuff, c’mon.
Yeah, GIGO, be sure to take posting advice from Mr “forgets start of paragraph by the time I reach the end!”
Forgotten what you posted again, Slack?
Many thanks to **MrDibble **for citing what for the Slacker is impossible to remember. 
But, to be more on point it was dealing with this post:
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20906929&postcount=1232
So, the Slacker does forget what he typed just a few hours or days ago, that figures. Must be the genes what also prevents him fromreading the whole cites. 
I like this comment: You’re basically saying that your own comments are so stupid you find them difficult to believe without a cite.
Well, here you go:
Yeah, that’s word-for-word exactly the same as it was before.
And here’s your “proof” of the above claim (the important bit that you failed to read), also in a quote box:
Again, exactly the same as in my prior post.
Weird how you don’t remember writing this stupid shit.
You guys are hilarious, like a Keystone Kops comedy team. First Dibble cites the wrong post. Then GIGO tries to gently correct him while pretending not to correct him, and cites a different post—which is still not the right one! Then EE finally provides a quote which does link to the post in question, and doing so illustrates why he was so reluctant to do so before.
I’d quote the whole post, which makes a mockery of your claim about it, but quoting a post on this board does not preserve the quotes embedded within it, which are crucial here. So just go look for yourselves. Here’s the direct link, if that helps:
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20909022&postcount=1282
I’ll keep that link handy just in case anyone is ever dumb enough to try to plow this ground once again.
I will however quote my final sentence from that post, just as a reminder to you all:
Nope, here you are insisting on going back, where you were also wrong as the cite you point also shows.
The problem is that you are denying now that there was more coming from the researcher you cited too, **that **goes into your convenient memory hole.
What I can see here is just willful ignorance of what the researcher that you cited did publish later.
This is mostly gibberish, and what little I could discern from it is flat out wrong. Bzzzt, try again.
Sure you say that, but I see only that you are scared that a guy with grammar problems can read better than you, so the question is: do you deny that that Kenneth Shores (the researcher you quoted) came a few months later with research that showed that you are relying on incomplete information to declare your dumb victory?
I take it that english is not your first language?
I can’t “deny” an assertion like that, because I don’t have a transcript handy of everything Shores has ever said. I can however confirm that there has been as of today no correction or note added to the Brookings paper, as you can see here:
I think you meant to address that to GIGO, and s/he has already confirmed that s/he is ESL. English is definitely my first language—it would be quite a trick to get a perfect 36 on both the English and Reading sections of the ACT if it were not. 
Forgot about the test score bragging! Repeated trumpeting of one’s test scores, as if this meant anything more (and was any more likely to be grounded in fact) than a random homeless person spouting about their political or celebrity connections.
Thanks for reminding me, Slacker.
Do you know that the argument that one can ignore new research (from the one you cited) does not work for climate change deniers or creationists too?
It is also clear that you **totally **missed that the cite I made about how many districts are underfunded came also from Shores.
Ok, thanks for clarifying that you are then an incompetent at reading cites and research.
GIGO, if you have evidence that supersedes the still-extant Brookings paper, link to it or get off the pot.
I posted video of myself holding the official score report. See upthread if you missed it.
Yes! That’s the way to go! You are *totally *coming across as the smartest and most well-adjusted person! Keep it up, you hero! “Slack am hyoomon best! Have vids to prove it!”
No, I was addressing you. Sometimes GIGO phrases things a bit oddly, but I have never had any difficulty in understanding. The post you responded to, claiming to be gibberish was pretty close to perfect english. I can see that it would be improved by the inclusion of a preposition and a comma, but it is perfectly intelligible.
Someone as well versed in english as you claim to be should be able to parse across minor errors with ease, instead, you are unable to comprehend it at all. That’s why I was wondering if english was your first language. Minor errors are harder for someone to parse if they have a poor grasp of the language.
If your language skills are as you say they are, then your assertion that you could not comprehend GIGO’s words is simply a lie in order to avoid dealing with what they are saying.
Your parents must be so proud.
I remember in preschool, when I got a gold star on my test, my parents would take a picture of me holding it.
If standardized tests were based around parsing pidgin English, or even the kind of writing you see in an average schmoe’s Facebook update, I would do very poorly. I’m happy to read the kind of prose you find in The Atlantic or The New Yorker, but even some of the content in the local newspaper starts to give me a headache and I give up on it. Perhaps that is indeed a limitation of mine. So be it.
How do people get into 8th grade with 3rd grade math and 4th grade reading skills?
The word you are looking for is expands (to give a fuller version or account of.). Used already, look for it, it is not hard.
Ok, not making the mistake to assume that you are able, so I also have to tell you that the Kenneth Shores’ most recent research that reported that 29 to 44 percent of districts under-allocate resources to disadvantaged students was already cited on post #1349
https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=20922455&postcount=1349
So, what happens when you are the one that chronically misses links? Will **you **get off the pot?
Thank you k9bfriender, that made my day.
And I do agree, Slacker is not only lying but also being a coward for avoiding questions with that ruse.