What makes a perfect parent? I've gotta admit, that's not something often I find myself wondering at this point in my life, but the thought has crossed my mind. As with the other ideas presented in this book, Levitt really supports his claims with strong evidence. Most of all, though the evidence makes sense.
For example, we had school choice when I was younger, but my parents never had the desire to send me to a "better" one. They felt that it wasn't so much the school that would make the difference in my education, it was me my work ethic. I was a good student who paid attention, participated well, and did my homework. It wouldn't have mattered which school I went to in my town because my parents would have had me do all that regardless of where I was.
On another note, I did feel that the different factors that were and were not correlated with test scores was pretty interesting, like how all the things that made a difference were what the parents were as opposed to what the parents did. Its kind of like you had what the parents were, but you really had to take a step back and look at it from a macro level to see what caused those parents to be what they were, and THAT is what makes the difference.
I've seen a lot of studies about the "nature vs. nurture" debate, specifically about twins separated at birth are more like each other than the people who raised them. They have these minute similarities that have to be strictly from nature. Plus, with everything from this chapter, I really feel that fore the most part, people are genetically "programmed" from the beginning.
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