An interesting puzzle of predicting college

Discussion in 'Quackenbush's' started by OldHippie, May 29, 2015.

  1. OldHippie

    OldHippie 2,500+ Posts

  2. nashhorn

    nashhorn 5,000+ Posts

    Interesting exercise. I was in the 43%, missing badly on the % of rich attending. Won't say how for the others that try it.
     
  3. mb227

    mb227 de Plorable

    I hit 61% but also missed the mark on the upper-income percentages...
     
  4. NJlonghorn

    NJlonghorn 2,500+ Posts

    84%, baby! Very interesting.
     
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  5. huisache

    huisache 2,500+ Posts

    90%. I grew up in a poor rural area and the only poor kids who went to college were ones who were motivated because we had discovered we were smarter than average and a lot smarter than the average poor kid. The more prosperous families encouraged their kids to go to college and it seemed to me that they were less likely to finish or do well on average than the more highly self motivated poorer kids. Anecdotal, I know, but that was my observation at the time and still.
     
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  6. OldHippie

    OldHippie 2,500+ Posts

    huische,
    My anecdote is along the continuum from yours. I came from a middle to upper-middle class family with both parents college grads. It was understood from birth that all 4 of us kids would go to college. No question permitted. Three of us finished undergrad and grad degrees.

    An interesting side note: there is research that highly correlates the number and variety of vocabulary words used daily in the home with success at all levels in school.
     

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