But don't believe me. Look up the performance of homeschoolers for yourself. I'm not going to do your homework for you.
Never denied that home schoolers on the whole are above public schoolers on the whole. You've completely misstated my point, I believe it's intentional and that means you're dishonest.
It's a rare person on this forum who home schools to say that their child is "average" or below average. Among home schooled kids some have to be below.
then you are the “victim” of a logical fallacy.
the reason that almost any parent of a homeschooled child thinks their children are above average is because they look at the public school children and see very below average kids.
as I said in my original post if you are just considering the group of only homeschooled children - you are right, however if you are considering the entire group of school aged children then homeschooled children ARE above the average of that group.
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“It’s a rare person on this forum who home schools to say that their child is “average” or below average. Among home schooled kids some have to be below.”
Funny how you assert others are lying when you go out of your way to distort what they say. We are comparing homeschooled children with children in general. Ergo - most of them will be above average.
You keep saying "average" as if there's a number that can be assigned to a person ... like the sale price on a house ... such that an arithmetic mean can be calculated producing clear "above average," "average," and "below average" people.
People aren't like that. Even a simple IQ measurement is not a great deal of use in comparing one "whole" person to another, since IQ measurements for the same person can change over his lifetime. Standardized test scores are a pretty good snapshot of certain academic skills at one point in time, but they neither measure all knowledge and skills nor do they define the person even in the measured subjects: Not happy with your math score? Study harder and do better the next time.
Test scores don't measure everything about a person even as a student. A student who finds tests easy may not have the study skills and diligence of a person without the "good at tests" gene, and the one who has to try harder may be more successful at college and at life.
In summary, I'm not sure what your argument is supposed to be, although it's clearly generating some heat, if not light. "My child is average" is a statement without real meaning, just as "My child is above (or below) average" is a statement without factual content. Any of these declarations simply conveys an emotion or an opinion, an opinion which in that form would not stand much scrutiny.