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Rejection Sensitivity in Gifted and Twice-Exceptional Children

102 points · 79 comments · actfrench

  1. bonsai_spool · · focus · HN ↗
    One should be careful with vibe-written / vibe-aided articles here. Who knows what is actually supported vs what sounded okay and the author (who is not a clinician) then signed off on.

    Even the core idea, 'rejection sensitivity' is acknowledged not to be a diagnostic entity: so then how can we make definitive comparisons? Maybe clinical gestalt... but the author is not trained to see and evalaute patients.

    1. adamsb6 · · focus · HN ↗
      Is this all that unusual for the field of education research?

      Vibe writing may be an improvement. I doubt frontier models would go along with whole language reading instruction without a tremendous amount of pushback.

      For those not in the know, a generation of children were taught to read sans phonics. They were told to do things like guess at words based on pictures or context clues. Some lessons had teachers covering words up and asking kids to use guessing strategies at what they might be.

      1. csa · · focus · HN ↗
        > Is this all that unusual for the field of education research?

        Large swathes of education research are extremely questionable due to things like limited or no ability to be reproduced, circular references, or just straight up fraud.

        The more that something that falls under the moniker of “education research” is built on the foundation of a more traditional (and typically more rigorous) academic discipline, the less likely that it is bogus research (e.g., Howard Gardner’s core research on multiple intelligences, which was science based on aphasic patients), versus the derived works on MI, many/most of which are bunk that he does not endorse).

        > Some lessons had teachers covering words up and asking kids to use guessing strategies at what they might be.

        This is just a cloze exercise. These can have a legitimate role in a learning environment when used appropriately.

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