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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Very interesting!  New Yorker ran a piece on this a few years ago with the exact opposite conclusion.

[quote]Youngest Kid, Smartest Kid?

These skills translate to a mindset that is crucial to lifelong achievement. In a way, the choice between redshirting and not is the choice between providing your child with a maturity boost or a challenge. While there is certainly an absolute benefit to being bigger and stronger, learning to deal with and overcome obstacles also has a long-lasting effect. It’s a quality the psychologist Angela Duckworth calls “grit,” and Carol Dweck dubs the “incremental mindset”: the knowledge that perseverance, dedication, and motivation can help you where an absolute advantage may not immediately come to the rescue. If you’ve always been praised as the best and brightest, chances are that that self-perception will eventually backfire; if you’ve had to earn your distinctions, they’re more likely to last.[/quote]

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/youngest-kid-smartest-kid

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This seems a bit less obscure and more mainstream.[/quote]

That article jumps to conclusions not supported by the studies cited. [/quote]

The New Yorker article is more credible and the nonsense cited in this thread seems at odds with everything I'd read about this for the past decade.[/quote]

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