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Before your accept this review at face value, read the book for yourself. This review, like many, fails to note that the data in question regards first- and se
by tuke 12y ago
Before your accept this review at face value, read the book for yourself.
This review, like many, fails to note that the data in question regards first- and second-year students (i.e., the second sample is in the third semester -- only 1 1/2 years after starting college). Many of us will recall that we made our big leaps in our junior and senior years, after declaring a major. In a later study, the authors claim that similar observations can be made regarding older students. Still, I would read this book with some skepticism.
For a more subtle review, try this one from the New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/06/06/110606crat_atlarge_menand?currentPage=all http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2011/06/06/110...
- crisnoble 12y agoThe link in the story to the book was broken, but this one works: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo10327226.html http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo1032722...