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Everything Important In Life Depends On Your Ability To Answer This Kindergarten Question
Business Insider ^ | 10/01/2010 | Joe Weisenthal

Posted on 10/01/2010 8:13:29 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Harvard Professor Raj Chetty and a group of other researchers have performed a much-discussed study (via Gene Expression) that looks at what factors really affect things like income, your likelihood to own a home, and odds of getting married.

The most startling thing they found?

Your score on a very basic kindergarten test is a HUGE predictor. Other educational factors like class size and the quality of your teachers aren't nearly as important.

Given the renewed interest in educational policy in America right now, it's fascinating.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Education; Science; Society; Weird Stuff
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To: Blueflag
This might qualify for an entry into the FR lexicon. It might be your knighthood into freepers of legend.

“duk” —> “kup”

Don't cha hate it when that happens?

61 posted on 10/01/2010 8:45:42 AM PDT by listenhillary (A very simple fix to our dilemma - We need to reward the makers instead of the takers)
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To: Lazamataz

Wow. They won’t let us get in the internet at our store on Memorial. You must have a nicer franchisee.


62 posted on 10/01/2010 8:46:00 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur)
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To: DallasDeb

That’s how I saw it too.


63 posted on 10/01/2010 8:47:07 AM PDT by cubreporter ( Trust Rush and you won't go wrong.)
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To: SeekAndFind

But as Latisha, Shaliqua and Ashaliqua have never SEEN a duck, the question is determined to be RAAACIST and is therefore disallowed. As a result, EVERYBODY passes.


64 posted on 10/01/2010 8:47:23 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
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To: listenhillary

It is a decent nominee.

cheese.
moose.
sister.
hugh.
series.
shower.
IBTZ.
bflr.
“duk” —> “kup” for epic, fully public FAIL.


65 posted on 10/01/2010 8:47:37 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur)
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To: Blueflag

I was part of Free Republic’s very first CheeseMoose thread.


66 posted on 10/01/2010 8:49:37 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The battle lines are drawn: On one side, are Dems and Repubs. On the other, the Tea Party (us).)
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To: Blueflag
“duk” —> “kup”


67 posted on 10/01/2010 8:50:45 AM PDT by dubie (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: KingLudd
Does this test assume kindergarteners can read the word? I can’t remember to what degree I was literate when I was in Miss Clayton’s kindergarten class.

No. The description says that the word "cup" is pronounced and the student is to listen for the ending sound. He/she then circles the picture that starts with that sound. No reading is required.

68 posted on 10/01/2010 8:50:56 AM PDT by Bob
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To: Blueflag

Um, I thought the pencil was a crayon so I was stumped.


69 posted on 10/01/2010 8:52:15 AM PDT by cajungirl
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To: Blueflag

Oh boy, did you ever duk kup with that post!


70 posted on 10/01/2010 8:53:25 AM PDT by LilAngel (FReeping on a cell phone is like making Christmas dinner in an Easy Bake Oven)
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To: Lazamataz

Indeed.

And you need a decade of experience or more here to have seen people try to ‘engage’ our very own classy green-eyed blonde.

;-)

p.s. I forgot beeber and stunned.


71 posted on 10/01/2010 8:54:19 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur)
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To: SeekAndFind

The answer, of course, is “A & C” ...


72 posted on 10/01/2010 8:54:42 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Lazamataz

oops I did it again.

stuuned, not stunned.

autocorrect got me.


73 posted on 10/01/2010 8:55:35 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur)
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To: Blueflag

ROFL....you made a joke, right!?!?!


74 posted on 10/01/2010 8:55:35 AM PDT by fml
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To: LilAngel

LOL

true!


75 posted on 10/01/2010 8:56:25 AM PDT by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur)
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To: Blueflag
Here's a 2002 thread that discusses (among other things) OWK's tendency to adorn vanity threads with "I like cheese. I really, really like it!". Some time thereafter I encountered one such thread. I brought the moose (via Monty Python)
76 posted on 10/01/2010 8:56:55 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The battle lines are drawn: On one side, are Dems and Repubs. On the other, the Tea Party (us).)
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To: SeekAndFind

No wonder my life is crap. I never got this question. After “color the 5 bears brown,” I started claiming I had a headache every morning so that was the end of kindergarten. It was a lot more fun to sit on my dad’s lap and read Time Magazine to him.


77 posted on 10/01/2010 8:59:38 AM PDT by pops88
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To: dfwgator; BlueLancer

>>This actually troubles me, because the implication is that they can use this to determine your future career path, like they did in the former Soviet Union, based on tests taken at a early age.<<

This part is easy. Fortunately the hard part for them is getting the authority to do it.

BlueLancer, I included you because there is something we discovered about you AND me. The desire to come up with a quick answer can stump people like us when we think we have the answer and don’t even read the question. When I first saw the picture I didn’t read the question and saw the word “Cup” and noticed the phrase “sounds like” in the question and immediately said Duck.

When I went to the site I had to read the two sentenced several times to understand what they were asking for because my interpretation of the sentences was clouded by my assumption that Duck was the answer. By the third time I got it and then looked at the pictures and said, “Oh, it’s Pencil”.

However, we did not “hear” the question. We read it. The question does seem to test more than “raw” intelligence, however. It seems to test the testee’s propensity to fully understand a problem before attempting to solve it. And that is why sometimes people with low IQ’s can get to a solution more accurately than someone with a high IQ.

Smarts is only part of the equation.

It was an eye opener to me because this is the sort of thing that has dogged me in my career my whole life. I’ve learned to temper it and it has paid dividends. I would come up with solutions much faster than other people but my analysis would often miss a key point, making my solution incorrect, or sometimes way off base.

And, as you can see, my other challenge is that I tend to be over-analytical. ;)


78 posted on 10/01/2010 9:00:11 AM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Blueflag

Blue — you, all by yourself, have made this thread much more interesting than the comments at the “Business Insider” site!!

Smart guy!!!


79 posted on 10/01/2010 9:00:11 AM PDT by Exit148
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To: Blueflag
I actually hit Classy Green Eyed Blonde.

It turns out, instead of a hot 34 year old, it was a 56 year old dockworker from Hoboken, New Jersey. I took one look at his pot belly, his stale breath and 3 day old stubble, and his oily, torn t-shirt.... and hit it anyways.

80 posted on 10/01/2010 9:00:20 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The battle lines are drawn: On one side, are Dems and Repubs. On the other, the Tea Party (us).)
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