Melissa Dell: uncertainty

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…In these poorer countries, do we see higher test scores in the cooler areas or the areas with more altitude? If we compare, say, Quito and Gayaquil or Lima and Cusco, whatever, there are comparisons you could make, right? I think there are. There’s a lot of things that would be, say, different between Lima and Cusco anyways, so I don’t know people have done that. But there are actually studies — more enriched countries — looking at if you have the school standardized tests on a hot day, does that matter for scores? And does it matter if your school has air conditioning or not? And people find a relationship there, that if you’re taking a standardized test in Massachusetts where most of our schools don’t actually have air conditioning, and it happens to be really hot, students don’t do as well. What did you learn from your grandmother?…

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