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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone read this article?

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

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OP, that article from 2013 has been posted many, many times on pretty much every forum that deals with this subject.

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Does that make it less true?  Are their subsequent articles/research in the last two years that disprove it?  [/quote]

You don't really understand how research works do you?  The studies (primarily a Norwegian and Swedish study) that the article is basing it's assumptions weren't conducted in the last two years.  Here is a similar article and a similar study conducted during a similar timeframe in the UK that draws an opposite conclusion:

http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/10/20/should-children-start-school-at-6-instead-of-5/

Sweden starts school at age 7, so the claim the author makes, "a typical Swede, starting school later translated to reduced over-all earnings," means the child started at 8.  This probably means that the child had LDs.  Why else for the later start date?

Norway starts school at age 6 (which is a year early for most of Scandinavia):
http://principalfoundations.blogspot.com/2011/08/why-norwegian-school-system-might-be.html

The author saying that in Norway, "children who started school a year later had I.Q. scores that were significantly lower than their younger counterparts..."  Again there are countless studies that will show early intervention improves cognitive/IQ scores.  A child who started at 7 not 6 wasn't able to catch up and probably held back to LDs.

So can people please stop quoting this article as the end all be all of "proof."
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