Gus, a young man spoke up first. Gus: It would probably have hurt our chances of being right here in this room because i'm old for my grade id. W what is the matter with you? Grady says he wants his score to be your score. Metteo raises his hand. He is at 18 on ist sticker, an age privileged advantage of a year and a half. And i think that's a poor idea, because it assumes that everyone who is older iske always going to be smarter than others. I've seen some pretty old people do some terrible things. A, no, no, mateo, that's not what it does, wolds
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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