| ▲ | Brendinooo 8 hours ago |
| This is why it's useful to look up stats when we have them. For example, homeschooled students do better on the ACT than public school kids. https://www.act.org/content/dam/act/unsecured/documents/Info... Obviously the schooling venue itself isn't the only factor here, but if you think homeschooling a kid is worth an analogy to fighting grizzlies, might be worth a reframe. |
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| ▲ | buellerbueller 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I suspect there is a lot of selection bias in that data. My hypothesis is that the homeschooled folks who take the ACT are more likely to do well on the ACT than the homeschooled folks who don't. |
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| ▲ | Brendinooo 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | Isn't that true of public school kids who do/don't take the ACT as well? | | |
| ▲ | brewdad 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | My Title 1 school made the ACT available to all students for free (on one specific date). A lot of kids who were unprepared for the ACT took it because, why not? | | |
| ▲ | SauntSolaire 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | We didn't have that at my school. Unless it's super widespread, it's probably not what's behind the different test results. |
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| ▲ | albedoa 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| This is some fascinating insight. Do you think that the things being compared are [homeschooling] and [fighting grizzlies]? |
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| ▲ | missedthecue 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I would say the interesting thing is the sudden increase over the last 5 years. Presumably, the number of Americans who think they can KO a grizzly bear is a lizardman constant situation in the surveys over time. But the number of people homeschooling is recently skyrocketing. | |
| ▲ | Brendinooo 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Given the subject of the thread and the comment I replied to: yes? |
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