Elouise and Harrison use birthdays to do a simple calculation. The higher the number on the sticker, the older the student wearing it. They even had a contingency for students who might have skipped te grade somewhere along the way. You'd get a negative number if you were younger than the expected age of a college senior. Being relatively older makes it more likely to get into a gifted and talented programme. And getting in a gifted and talent programe makes it morelikely to get into school like pen.
Did Malcolm Gladwell blow it in his bestselling book Outliers? What if all he did was write a primer for neurotic helicopter parents? To find out, Revisionist History descends on the University of Pennsylvania to run a roomful of eager students through a mysterious experiment, complete with Sharpies, huge white stickers, and a calculator. It does not end well.
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