You May Ask Yourself By Dalton Conley Analysis

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Rita Sobhy
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According to the book “You May Ask Yourself” by Dalton Conley, Robert Rosenthal and Lenore Jacobson have conducted a research about education during the 1960’s. The researchers went to an elementary school and provided the elementary school students an intelligent quotient test. They then picked one fifth at random, of those students that took the test, and told their teachers that they were “bright” students. They did not look at the results of the exams but just picked them at random. The students took the intelligent quotient test at the end of the school year again. The results of the second intelligent test for the one fifth of the students that were chosen at random before was higher both then their first test

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