Gender stereotypes at home may hamper female students’ ability to progress in the classroom, research suggests

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  • spujb@lemmy.cafe
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    1 month ago

    yes, sure, in a poetic sense, but no in the literal scientific data sense; the article says parents were asked to guess against literal test scores that the kids took

    more research would be needed to examine long term meanings of overestimation, and i’d be careful not to draw conclusions before then

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      1 month ago

      I would not be prepared to base anything on parents guessing scores with all attendant externalities - and yet that’s what this report is keen to do .