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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (238350)	11/21/2013 12:30:57 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542024

I include all my friends. My experience was no different than all the kids I went to high school and college with. We studied together so I could see how there memory was compared to mine or how quickly they figured out stuff or their grades. We knew how each other did. My concern are all those poor kids, ghetto kids, street kids, who are not doing well in high school and are being seen as not being college material by many people. When all they lack is a chance. They run the same normal curve of IQ's as any other population, yet they are mostly failing. We can and must help them not fail. I ran with hundreds of kids. I was president of a fraternity in my early years and mixed with hundreds of kids like myself. And knew thousands of kids that came from backgrounds similar to my own, over my entire college experience. I was an average kid. We all functioned about the same. We were normal. Most people are normal. I consider normal one standard deviation above and below the mean which includes 68% of the population. I have a pretty good background in statistics and a degree in experimental psychology where we primarily studied statistics, probability, reliability and predictability and the Stanford-Binet. The kids I was running with were normal kids, kids who averaged a 100 IQ. The population was plenty large to obtain reliable results.. Point being, the average human being can get through college just fine. We all made it AND we partied and worked a LOT while doing it. I just did not see a lot of struggling to get through college and very few dropped out. I worked my way all the way through college. Not a dime from my family. They were poor. What I do think most people misunderstand is that developing an "expert mind" takes a long time. Scientific American says it takes ten years.