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That's how we think about math.We assume that being good at things like calculus and algebra is a simple function of how smart you are. 也揭示了我们对数学的看法。我们假设,依据微积分和代数成绩就可以辨别一个人是否足
And, most of all, it's autonomous. 重要的是,大多数的农民是有自主权的, The peasants of Europe worked essentially as low-paid slaves of an aristocratic landlord, with little control over their own destinies. 在欧洲的农民只能从
But he didn't start out an outlier. He started out just a little bit better. 但他并不是一开始就是一个出类拔萃的人,他起初只不过比他人稍强一点罢了。 The second implication of the hockey example is that the systems we
It's hard for a five-year-old to keep up with a child born many months earlier. 理由是,对一个5岁的孩子来说,他很难和比他早几个月出生的孩子相处。 But most parents, one suspects, think that whatever disadvantage a young
European soccer, similarly, is organized like hockey and baseball, 欧洲足球的组织模式和曲棍球、棒球的模式非常相似, and the birth-date distributions in that sport are heavily skewed as well. 球员的出生日期呈现出一边倒
It was a kind of an amazing thing. 想起来真让人难以置信。 It was an amazing thing, of course, because this was 1968. 这是一件令人难以置信的事,确实如此,因为这是在1968年。 Most colleges didn't have computer clubs i
That late-born prodigy doesn't get chosen for the all-star team as an eight-year-old because he's too small. 那些虽然满了8岁,但出生较晚的天才,之所以没能选进明星球队,是因为他们年龄偏小了。 So he doesn't get t
Gates was now in his senior year, 此时,盖茨已经是高年级学生, and somehow he managed to convinced his teachers to let him decamp for Bonneville under the guise of an independent study project. 也不知道用了什么办法,他成功地
After protracted negotiations, it was agreed Robert will be put on probation.经过长期谈判,终于答应继续试用罗伯特。 Chris Langan's mother was from San Francisco and was estranged from her family. 克里斯.兰根的母亲出生于旧
What the test giver is looking for is the number and the uniqueness of your responses. 测试者希望知道的是你回答的数量和答案的个人特点, And what the test is measuring isn't analytical intelligence but something profoundly diff
We knew that our minority students, a lot of them, were doing well, says Richard Lempert, one of the authors of the Michigan study. 我知道的我们那些少数族裔学生,他们大部分都干得很不错,密歇根该项计划负责人之一的
Let me give you another, perhaps more serious, example of the threshold effect in action. 让我们再来看另外一个正产生比较严重影响的例子。 The university of Michigan law School, like many elite US educational institutions, 密歇根
Just after the First World War, Lewis Terman, a young professor of psychology at Stanford University, 第一次世界大战结束不久,年轻的斯坦福大学心理学教授刘易斯.特曼(Lewis Terman) met a remarkable boy named Henry Cowell.
Would Oppenheimer have lost his scholarship at Reed? 那么,如果把兰根换成奥本海默,奥本海默是否也可能失去里德学院的奖学金? Would he had been unable to convince his professors to move his classes to the afternoon? 他
As it turns out, Alex Williams is black and Katie Brindle is white. 亚历克斯威廉斯是黑人而卡蒂布琳德尔是白人。 Alex has those skills because over the course of his young life, his mother and father, in the manner of educated fami
The wealthier parents raised their parents one way, and the poorer parents raised their kids another way. 富有家庭有一套养育孩子的体系,贫困家庭也有另一套养育孩子的体系。 The wealthy parents will heavily involved in th
The answer came to him after five long days of walking up and down the streets of the Lower East Side, just as he was about to give up hope. 在这个街上来来回回走了好些天,正当他觉得无望的时候,未来的答案却明朗起来,
Think about this story for a moment. The first lesson is that Friedman was willing to work hard, 让我们回味一下这个故事。我们从中得到的第一条教益,是说弗雷德曼是想努力工作, take responsibility for himself, and p
The only way out of town was up Pine Mountain, which was nine steep miles from bottom to top, on the road that turned on occasion into no more than a muddy rocky trail. 唯一一条出城的路是翻过松树山,这是一条长九英里陡峭的山道
Is it Guan? the flight engineer asked. 飞行工程师问那是关岛吗? Then, after a pause, he said, It's Guam, Guam. 稍作停顿后,他说:那是关岛,关岛。 The captain chuckled. Good! 机长边笑边说:好。 The first officer r