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Re:Large home libraries may have a long-term impact on profi... by JamesBarney on Thursday October 18, 2018 @03:47PM (#18251513)
I think most parents with large household libraries are probably pretty bright. And most kids from pretty bright parents are pretty bright too.

You could fill a library with all the studies that tried to improve people's lives through increased reading. And none of them replicated in large way.

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Re:Large home libraries may have a long-term impact on profi... by simplemts on Friday October 19, 2018 @04:22AM (#18255040)
You should check out '30 million words'. It's a book about the importance of spoken language on young minds, and books may be a means. Fascinating data in it.
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Re:Large home libraries may have a long-term impact on profi... by JamesBarney on Friday October 19, 2018 @11:36AM (#18257438)
Before I invest the time.and money in buying a book. How did they deal with the confounds? And was there a study on the intervention you could point me to?

Reading the summary of the book on Amazon, the experiments looked pretty confounded and it didn't mention any successful interventions.

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Re:Large home libraries may have a long-term impact on profi... by toomuchtodo on Friday October 19, 2018 @11:10AM (#18257213)
https://smile.amazon.com/Thirty-Million-Words-Building-Child...
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