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To: aladin who wrote (96455)1/23/2005 12:36:08 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (2) of 793928
 
Assuming, for the sake of the argument, that left-handed Lithuanians were better at math than anybody else on earth, why in the world would we be better off with a study that attempted to prove that?

A scientific study can't actually "prove" things like that, all it can do is suggest that it is statistically more likely than not.

If you happened to be a left-handed Lithuanian who was terrible at math, such a study might make you feel better about yourself, but so what?

Would it make good policy sense to put all left-handed Lithuanians into math enrichment classes from an early age?

No, you'd still only want to accelerate the left-handed Lithuanians who were actually good at math, and that's not hard to discern from the beginning.
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