Re: ...yeah, its better to get the students "prepped" for a test they

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@HEP.ANL.GOV>]

        You have taken my quote out of context.  Please re-ask the
question, including in the quote the referent for the phrase "only such
studies".
                                        Regards,
                                                Jack

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On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Chuck Britton wrote:

> At 1:50 PM -0600 3/6/00, Jack Uretsky wrote:
>
> >   The only such studies of which I am aware are the Terman "genius
> > studies" (validating "IQ testing" as predictive of future career
> > "success").
> >         What we are left with, to the best of my understandin, is
> > measurements of correlations between teachers and performance on tests
> > like the FCI.  This seems like data-taking just for the sake of
> > data-taking, and the long-term implications are left unknown.
>
> Did the Terman study begin as 'data-taking just for the sake of data-taking'?
>
> If NOT, how did it differ from PER?
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