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1.5 years isn't even that much? I mean you can probably find that variance within any cohort so I doubt it was the acceleration that caused any psychological re

• stephen_cagle 6y ago
  True, though small differences when you are young can seem radically more important than they really are. tldr; Teenagers are very very insecure.
• xzel 6y ago
  The development of 1.5 during those years is huge. The difference between interacting with a 16 and 18 year old are night and day in experience and maturity. But I agree with you this would be incredibly difficult to accurately measure differences with a lack of accelerated students and subjective questions/answers.
• brianberns 6y ago
  I'll never know for sure, since I can't run the counterfactual. It's certainly possible that the outcome might have been similar if I hadn't been accelerated. That said, girls tend to mature faster than boys, and I can assure you that most 18 year old females are not very interested romantically in younger males (in that era and place, at least). A year makes a huge difference in that regard. I suspect the study in question didn't account for this.
• kergonath 6y ago
  When you’re 15, 1.5 years is 10% of your whole life. I know I seriously struggled with being significantly younger than the others in my classes. Having gone through a PhD since then, there is no way I would have handled it well at 20. Besides, my experience is that if you’re so bright, there are plenty of opportunities everywhere to satisfy your curiosity (or at least work on it). It does not have to be at school.