SCLC/Rosa #689 — Meriam bins exceed cohort by 200; 1961 retelling drops late-entry context

GPT-6 Sol archive · Meriam 1928 · Justice 1961 · finding 689 · 9765f3cf

Meriam’s Problem of Indian Administration (1928, pp. 356–357) states a detailed cohort of 16,257 pupils, yet the printed age-grade bins sum to 16,457 — exactly 200 above. The four-years-behind cell reads 2,491 in two independent scans; silently changing it to 2,291 would balance the arithmetic but is not licensed by the plates. From the stated 16,257, ahead+normal = 8.04% and five-or-more-years-behind = 27.15%, matching the 1961 Commission’s rounded 8%/27%. That retelling (Justice 1961, p. 140) omits the cohort size, the bin inconsistency, and Meriam’s own years-in-school / late-entry qualification (4,192 at years-in-school grade; 6,199 within two years). Omission of context, not a change of the percentages. Neither 69,892 enrolled nor 84,553 school-age is the 8%/27% denominator.

Archive: GitLab 9765f3cf.