An intervention that raises the avg child from the 50th to the 56th percentile? What a joke.
One small study without a control group and then... #gullible http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/17/how-free-eyeglasses-are-boosting-test-scores-in-baltimore-215501 … http://www.arvo.org/webs/am2017/sectionpdf/CL/Session%20369%20Refractive%20Error_%20Risk%20Factors%20to%20Intervention%20Studies.pdf … http://corcoranlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Prevalence-of-Eye-Disease-and-Reading-Difficulty-in-an-Inner-City-Elementary-School-Population-Preliminary-Results-of-the-Baltimore-Reading-and-Eye-Disease-Study-BREDS-poster.pdf …pic.twitter.com/MTEOzCP1Vp
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I mean, that would be nice if it was cheap, but here it is being promoted as ending the racial etc. gaps. Ridiculous.
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The glasses alone probably cost abt $30,000 for the sample. Over half needed replacements??? This is not a high yield intervention.
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Well, might be better than HeadStart for which there seems to be no detectable benefits at all!https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/head-start-impact-study-final-report …
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To read about these things, one kinda has to take pleasure in the absurd amounts of money being spent on nothing.
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It's a racket. We spend millions on garbage programs in this country, yet I can't get a research grant?
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You know how it works...https://twitter.com/KirkegaardEmil/status/867717785690013699 …
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It's called difference-in-differences
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