Chapter 5
1. Since most people care about their children, they will often over exaggerate or repress the truth to their kids about a certain threat to protect their children.
2. When a parent does not know how to deal with a child because the parent is still young and does not know what to do, they will often rely on an expert or a wiser person’s opinion to help them deal with certain issues. With all of the risks and dangers of not taking care or treating a baby correctly, many parents are afraid and the parent book market exploits this fear to make money on it.
3. The main idea of this book is the fact of that the expert or speaker does not have to be right on their information or they can stretch the truth, as long as they can scare or influence someone into believe in them, that is all that matters.
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Causation is referred to as cause and effect scenarios but correlation is the relation between two different but mutually exclusive things.
6. A control is often use to sort out many variable, when it comes to students, classwork can be the control since every student has classwork they have to complete which can be a base line for the rest of the experiment.
7. Normative analysis is a theory that has little evidence to back up its argument, it is a statement. Positive analysis is a theory that can be proven. Perfect parenting is found to be impossible based on the multiple factors that influence a child, providing conflicting results.
8. The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study was conducted by the Department of Education with the goal of measuring students from various grades to determine their performance in school to see how the schools and students can be improved.
9. Based on past history, especially in the 1950’s, an all-black school will have less funding based on stereotypes. While an all-white school will receive more funding as people believe those students will be the future of their