Test Scores

Read a book called "Freakonomics". It's like social econs. Some of the statistics / tests being conducted were really interesting. Especially one on factors that correlates with test scores. The factors being testsed were:

1) Child has highly educated parents
2) Child's family is intact
3) Child's parents have high socioeconomic status
4) Child's parents recently moved into a better neighborhood
5) Child's mother was thirty or older at the time of her first child's birth6) Child's mother didn't work between birth and kindergarten
7) Child had low birthweight
8) Child attended head start
9) Child's parents speak English at home10) Child's parents regularly take him to museums
11) Child is adopted
12) Child is regularly spanked
13) Child's parents are involved in PTA
14) Child frequently watches tv
15) Child has many books in his home
16) Child's parents read to him nearly every day

So for the factors strongly correlated with test scores.. it's those in bold. Start to wonder about the myths (or maybe not) of going to preschool etc. All the Eton House, Montessori... hm.. wat's to think about them?