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Are you saying there is some particular training program that increases scores much more than the 30-90 points claimed by various studies?
by civilized 4y ago
Are you saying there is some particular training program that increases scores much more than the 30-90 points claimed by various studies?
- kenjackson 4y agoYes. And I’m going to be coy and not tell you much about it. So you’re right to be skeptical. In a few years I’ll speak more freely on it.
- civilized 4y agoSkeptical is putting it mildly. I'd give you better chances of having a secret proof of the Riemann Hypothesis than producing miracle educational results at scale (even if it is just on a standardized test).
- kenjackson 4y agoI’d be just as skeptical. It’s something that would require strong evidence and I’m providing you none. I’ll be around on HN in five years. Ask me then.
- civilized 4y agoIf it's real, you might as well tell everyone and I'll hear about it that way - I am certain you'll be very popular.
- kenjackson 4y agoTo be clear, the plan is to not just tell you. :-)
- MichaelNolan 4y agoThey are being so vague that’s it’s impossible for us to know, but they didn’t say “at scale”. You’re certainly correct that there isn’t some secret sauce that we could just apply to everyone. But it wouldn’t surprise me if there was a service that costs (high) 5 or 6 figures per year that could substantially increase test scores. Though I would imagine such a service would have to take place over months/years and not days/weeks, and that kind of blurs the lines of whether it even counts as test prep at that point.