So, I had a thought the other day about the recent epidemic of autism – and mind you, this is definitely tinfoil hat territory.<\/p>\n
I think it’s possible autism is enhanced – made to be a more prominent trait – by standardized testing.<\/p>\n
So, the basic thesis works like this. Natural Neural networks are always adapting to whatever load is placed on them. Standardized testing encourages them to develop more black-and-white thinking. I think professional educators often forget that the minds of the students are still adapting during the test itself – that the test itself is causing them to learn something, but it’s probably not anything you’d call good. <\/p>\n
And, of course, we run our children through many, many standardized tests these days. I think it’d be really interesting to run some large advanced ANNs through standardized testing and looking to see what happens to the structure of a mind that is adapting to standardized testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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