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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.o
by Brendinooo 11mo 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-Brief-2015-2.pdf 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.
- albedoa 11mo agoThis is some fascinating insight. Do you think that the things being compared are [homeschooling] and [fighting grizzlies]?
- missedthecue 11mo agoI 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 11mo agoGiven the subject of the thread and the comment I replied to: yes?
- buellerbueller 11mo agoI 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.
- Brendinooo 11mo agoIsn't that true of public school kids who do/don't take the ACT as well?
- brewdad 11mo agoMy 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 11mo agoWe didn't have that at my school. Unless it's super widespread, it's probably not what's behind the different test results.