Vocab
Fearmongering
Making people scared on purpose by exaggerating dangers.
Parents fear the wrong things. Which is more dangerous for childrens, GUN or POOLS?
Data shows pools are more dangerous
Correlation
When two variables move together
Does going to a "better" school make a child do better?
Better school doesn’t automatically make a child do better.
Causation
When one variable directly causes another
What matters more for a child's success, who the parents are or what the parents do for their child?
Who the parents are matters more
Socioeconomic Status (SES)
Income, education, and occupation level
Parents get a lot of confusing and often bad advice because...
because experts disagree with each other, and their recommendations keeps changing.
Risk Assessment
Evaluating the real probability of danger
In the late 1990s what was the name of the project the U.S. Department of Education undertook.
Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS)