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A Scientific Family
- jorjordandan 12y agoRemember to spellcheck, nasa.
- Apofis 12y agoI always wondered where I'd be had my parents been more involved in these types of subjects and directly or indirectly involved me. At least my father being a network engineer put a computer in front of me to tinker with early enough. A lot of other kids didn't even get that much.
- vacri 12y agoIt's a bit sad that in lionising science, they use anecdata about an outlier to counter prevailing statistics... which isn't a very scientific way of doing things.
- sukilot 12y ago"family" business has a nice ring to it, but there is an undercurrent of nepotism and privilege. It's not quite wrong, but it's not quite fair shakes either. This youngster should be evaluated relative to other privileged youth, not the average American child.
- tanderson92 12y ago"not quite wrong" ? Is your critique of the wording of the article or rather of the parenting; that is, are you suggesting that it is close to wrong for parents to give their kids an edge, so-called "privilege" over everyone else in the world?