Large home libraries may have a long-term impact on proficiency: study
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Large home libraries may have a long-term impact on proficiency: study
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Re: Large home libraries may have a long-term impact on proficiency: study
#2I grew up in a household that had passed that 350 book mark, and beyond all of the actual meaningful improvements it has made to my life, it also meant that reading comprehension on standardized testing was laughably easy. So teach your kids to love books, and enjoy reading. It doesn't have to be high-brow intellectually challenging shit, just make sure that they associate books with fun.
Re: Large home libraries may have a long-term impact on proficiency: study
#3I grew up in a household that had passed that 350 book mark, and beyond all of the actual meaningful improvements it has made to my life, it also meant that reading comprehension on standardized testing was laughably easy. So teach your kids to love books, and enjoy reading. It doesn't have to be high-brow intellectually challenging shit, just make sure that they associate books with fun.
I think that last part is especially true.
Due to school and forced reading assingments, reading gets associated too often with work or boring assignments.
Re: Large home libraries may have a long-term impact on proficiency: study
#4How would growing up in a household with only ebooks, or a household with only physical books make a difference? (Assuming an equal number of both)
Re: Large home libraries may have a long-term impact on proficiency: study
#5How would growing up in a household with only ebooks, or a household with only physical books make a difference? (Assuming an equal number of both)
Perhaps completely irrelevant as long as an equal number are read?
Re: Large home libraries may have a long-term impact on proficiency: study
#6As a child in a boarding school I actually got to grow up in a literal library. I would say most of what I am today, the good parts, come from me getting the opportunity to be among books, and that too of such diverse nature.
Re: Large home libraries may have a long-term impact on proficiency: study
#7Or it could be only a correlation. Smart parents have books, but they also have smart children.
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#8Re: Large home libraries may have a long-term impact on proficiency: study
#9I am unable to read the actual study (paywall) and this article doesn't really talk about the methodology, but did they account for socioeconomic factors?
I would assume on average that the more books your family could afford, the more money they have.
Re: Large home libraries may have a long-term impact on proficiency: study
#10The study this summary refers to studied books as an indicator of a “culture of scholasticism.” It didn’t even really try to disentangle socioeconomic effects, because it was looking to use books as a proxy for them.
It did not say “books in the home make you smarter.” It was arguing “books are a reasonable cross-cultural proxy for orientation towards scholasticism in the home.”
This summary, to my reading of the actual article, completely confuses cause and effect.