Thamiel

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by Thamiel 9y ago
Would you kindly elaborate on what you perceive to be the subtleties about IQ? Besides the danger of mistakenly thinking an important factor is the only factor, which is of course a common problem. About predictive qualities in childhood,
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by Thamiel 9y ago
I quoted a source for my claim, imperfect though it may be. Can you support your assertion?
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by Thamiel 9y ago
I think I explained myself poorly. Of course the schools don't measure raw IQ, there are many factors like intrinsic motivation (problematic as a measure in young children) conscientousness (which is a relatively stable character trait
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by Thamiel 9y ago
I know the difficulties surrounding IQ, I was just quoting it to show that predictions about future ability can be made at that age.
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by Thamiel 9y ago
> The lowest performers are unlikely to become best, but the middle still changes significantly. As long as the middle gets sorted into the Realschule, there's no problem ;-) But more seriously, according to wikipedia[0] IQ is relat
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by Thamiel 9y ago
Well, as I said, the system is not perfect, which is why there are several paths for "late bloomers" to make it to university. I myself got sorted into Hauptschule, but after a year my grades improved and I switched to Realschule,
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by Thamiel 9y ago
> This article is total bullshit and so is the "dual education" model. This article is about the american system, and compared to taking on student debt, earning an apprentices' salary is an improvement. >A lot of that
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by Thamiel 9y ago
Could you elaborate why you think stratification is a bad thing? I think at age 10 you can robustly determine whether or not a student has the abilities for serious academic work, and I believe it's best for the students to get an educ