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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some posters on this board are just angry. Let's put that aside.

Other,  reasonable posters seem to be getting frustrated with each other because they weight methods of acquiring knowledge differently.

[b]Some people here place a lot of faith in anecdote, especially their own anecdotal experiences. Other people place more faith in evidence-based research. [/b]

When the people who favor research post links to research that supports their point of view and runs counter to other posters' experience, the people who favor anecdote feel like their experience is being dismissed.

When the [b]people who favor anecdotal evidence[/b] seek to refute research based on their own experiences, the people who favor research are skeptical about sample size and biases and feel like the research is being dismissed.

We're talking about differences in epistemological paradigms here. Both points of view have a place. Let's save the ICBMs for the threads about the schools our kids didn't get into.[/quote]

OK, let's parse this condescending comparison of "anecdotal evidence" vs. "research-based evidence."  I'm a researcher by profession, so here goes.
  
1.  Talking about actual experience MoCo magnets is worthless, a data point of one.  Despite the fact that the poster may know or have seen hundreds of kids in the magnets.  Meanwhile, at least one of the posters who disagrees says her kids are in private school, i.e. she talks "theory" but has no personal experience with gifted programs whatsoever.

2.  Talking about research in books like The Genius in All of Us is likewise worthless, because only the two people on this thread who read it can talk about it.  This, despite the fact the book (which I too have read) has a really long footnote section with links to tons of research.

3.  Conclusion:  the only useful information comes from a select number of advocacy websites, which promote older views of IQ, but which happen to be linkable.

Can you understand why some of us are frustrated?[/quote]

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