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• Workaccount2 3y ago
  Right, that is step 6. If you go over the research, you realize that they all assume the premise "everyone is born with an identical blank slate". Which leads to conclusions (either said outright or implied) like; "If you give enough resources to any given child, they can grow up to be anything." So we end up with schools that serve low income areas getting enormous amounts of funding to teach admin assistants and tile layers to be heart surgeons. And the data on that end shows unequivocally that it is not working.
  • davemp 3y ago
    > And the data on that end shows unequivocally that it is not working. Of course throwing money at (sometimes corrupt) school boards isn’t going to be effective. There isn’t much 1/20th of a school teacher can do 8am-2pm M-F to counter a bad environment. It takes a village after all. Not exactly data that’s useful to your hypothesis.
  • Systemling0815 3y ago
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  • davorak 3y ago
    > If you go over the research, you realize that they all assume the premise "everyone is born with an identical blank slate". From my experience this is a large exaggeration to not true at all. For example the Colorado adoption project has been around has been around for a longer time and was well regarded last I checked. Are there piles of hard science papers out there that are concluding "everyone is born with an identical blank slate" that I am missing?