Communication to the Editor—The Dangers of Research Based on One Telephone Call to Dallas

Abstract

I welcome the opportunity to respond to Mr. Cooper's comments [Cooper, W. W. 1976. The cluster plan for desegregating public schools or a little less Weltanschauung , please, for some more adequate description. Management Sci. 22 (11, July).] about the paper that Mr. Thompson and I wrote on operations research and school busing [Stimson, D. H., R. P. Thompson. 1975. The importance of ‘Weltanschauung’ in Operations Research: The case of the school busing problem. Management Sci. 21 (June) 1123–1132.] and to present some aspects of a legal case to overturn the dual school system in Oklahoma City.