<p>OK, SL. I don’t give up. </p>
<p>Here are the weaknesses in your two arguments: </p>
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<li><p>I would say that ALL EAs have a choice. They may not exercise it for various reasons, but they DO have it. So I don’t see how an EA NOT exercising one’s choice affects yield. But if one accepts your assumption here, then I would agree with you.</p></li>
<li><p>This case would only hold if an ED applicant were, in fact, applying to one’s first choice. A lot of evidence indicates that is often not the case. again, if one agreed with your assumption, then you would be correct.</p></li>
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<p>So in both cases, we differ because you are drawing your conclusions from assumptions, where I prefer to draw my conclusions solely from the data (albeit with some manipulations, and, as we learned after the debate began, with different assumptions, mainly that two different year pools were equateable.)</p>
<p>PAX.</p>