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🎓 Brain tests at age 3 predict life outcome (research)
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✂️ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38281663They followed the lives of more than 1,000 children. Those who had low test scores for language, behavioural, movement and cognitive skills at three years old went on to account for more than 80% of crimes, required 78% of prescriptions and received 66% of social welfare payments in adulthood. ✂️ The researchers stress that children's outcomes are not set at the age of three. The course of their lives could potentially be changed if they receive support later in life, for example through rehabilitation programmes when they are adults. Prof Terrie Moffitt, from Duke University in North Carolina in the US, who co-led the study, told BBC News: "The earlier children receive support the better. "That is because if a child is sent off on the wrong foot at three and not ready for school they fall further and further behind in a snowball effect that makes them unprepared for adult life". Prof Moffitt said nearly all the children who had low scores in cognitive assessments early on in life went on to fall through "society's cracks". "We are able to predict who these high cost service users will be from very early in life. "Our research suggests that these were people who, as very young children, never got the chance that the rest of us got. They did not have the help they needed to build the skills they need to keep up in this very complicated and fast-paced economy". She said society should rethink their view of these people who are often condemned as "losers" and "dropouts" and instead offer more support. Food for thought but in my view there's a huge obstacle to progress...namely the just world fallacy which is still pervasive in society. |
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Food for thought but in my view there's a huge obstacle to progress...namely the just world fallacy which is still pervasive in society. https://www.gov.uk/help-with-childca...to-4-year-olds This enables the infants to attend nurseries, which can be invaluable for otherwise abandoned and isolated souls. Education, training, building social skills and friendships. I was lucky enough to work in an establishment that had a nursery. The two-year-olds were very withdrawn and upset when they first arrived into a new situation, but after a fortnight they wanted to be part of it. At four, they were a happy little group wanting to engage in everything together, and of course each year several would progress together to primary school. Nurseries, far from being simply "bootie camps" to enable parents to dump their offspring during the day, are an invaluable and beneficial part of a child's upbringing. This evens out the different approaches taken by parents to the upbringing of their infants. Fair enough, some parents may want to be at home with their infants until they start primary school, as long as those parents make sure that the children are getting social interaction with others of the same age. A child who has been totally isolated at home might be up to speed academically when they start primary school, but they will be sadly lacking compared to others as regards social and team skills. Such a deficit WILL be with them for considerable time. Don't forget too that our brains, whilst adding thousands of new cells during the infant stage, go on growing until our mid twenties, when our outlook, personality and desires become settled as young adults. I'm not pessimistic about infants chances when based upon a poor home life, provided that those children DO attend nursery. Also remember that the nursery are OBLIGED to give the parent or guardian feedback every day about how the child is progressing, and how the parent should be helping with progress - some parents have little or no idea. This is such an important subject - excellent that you've started a thread about it, very worthy of our time on this forum. |
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It would be excellent if this report leads to better and more extensive nursery provision for pre-school children with an emphasis on play and socialisation, but I can't help thinking it will become just another excuse for the government to push their obsession with formal learning at an earlier and earlier age.
Also, has there been any research into why some 3 year olds do much better at these tests than others? Couldn't diet and nutrition ( both post birth and during the mother's pregnancy ) have anything to do with it? If that is the case a different approach to solving the problem would need to be taken. |
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I can't see how this helps, you can have same scores at that age and go onto become a rich business man or a bank robber using exactly the same scores.
Just depends on how you are lead and parented. |
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I can't see how this helps, you can have same scores at that age and go onto become a rich business man or a bank robber using exactly the same scores.
Just depends on how you are lead and parented. So perhaps the evidence suggests that we are not all masters of our own fates and we don't all start on a level playing field from which we can either flourish or flounder at our own hands. |
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Where is this study? Is this like the cookie experiment?
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