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Good point. Small data set, but.... The #1 and #2 ranked students in my high school class both were single kids (no siblings) with helicopter parents who would intervene when they got poor grades. Both underperformed later in life.

The outperformers did get a few Bs along the way (or many) but to your point had intellectual parents. In some cases they enforced studying. In others it was providing early access to computers.




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