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Ep 172: Talents and Testing

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Psychological Assessments in Schools

The report was always excruciatingly comprehensive to printed on high quality paper with graphs and high-standing terms. It resembled some kind of medical or pathology readout in places returning the results of a blood test where experts had to worryingly pour over the numbers. The easy to digest simple summary though meant you knew what it all meant at a glance. You never really needed to look at the detail in the numbers much less question their validity or reasoning. I saw many students lose heart as sparring engineers simply give up from that day on. No matter my sitting with them in their exasperation and explaining, psychologists don't know what they're talking about, this test means nothing. One could see behind

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