Test predicts which children will grow up to be drain on society

Re:Test predicts which children will grow up to be drain on ... by popmatrix on Monday December 12, 2016 @04:01PM (#13161872)

It's quite hard to take anything objective from this article. Unless I missed it, I don't see any link to the source material and there is no mention of what the specifics of the test were, or the sample (aside from the sample size). The three links provided on the article are links to mentioned universtiy landing pages or a link to another Telegraph article regarding a /different/ study.

It would be interesting to see the details of the study to determine if there is potentially more of a link to some other criteria (e.g. wealth) than the test questions themselves (which are never mentioned).

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Re:Test predicts which children will grow up to be drain on ... by openasocket on Monday December 12, 2016 @04:13PM (#13161954)

The actual questions will probably never be distributed publicly, if they are planning on actually using this for something. If people can see what the questions look like ahead of time, it can bias them and lead to inaccurate results, so it's standard practice in psychology to keep the details private.

But yeah, there isn't a lot of content here regardless.

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