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Bill Lucas

By Bill Lucas (March 2007 Issue)
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Picture the scene. Your teenage daughter getsback from school and tells you that she has just got the results of an important science test. With a deadpan expression she tells you that she got 70 per cent. How do you react?

Do you:

a) Congratulate her on a tremendous achievement?
b) Commiserate with her that she came last in her group, which happens to be full of bright children?
c) Wait to see if she knows what 70 per cent means for her individually – and in any sense comparatively, with others of a similar age?

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