I’ve had a strong emotional reaction to this claim of being able to teach any 2y/o to read at a 2nd grade level. I support pursuing incredible things but don’t understand how you can believe in the heritability of iq and this, too. 

How much of these results are selection effects?

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Can we improve literacy? YES
Can kids do more than we currently believe? YES
Is chapter books at 2 an outlier outcome? YES

I don’t believe this should be controversial, but I fear saying this on X will get me labeled as a decel

If you have the aptitude, you will start to learn reading at that age almost through osmosis, anyway. It will come to you naturally.

I think kids need to be allowed to just be kids and learn through play at age 2, not be taught to read.

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Well ok. In honesty I was this early reader, which also adds bias to my view.  my mom told me that as a a pre verbal baby if someone went to read to me and the book was upside down, I would “fix it”. I don’t know, however, how you transform that into an edu approach. I believe reading is my God given gift 😬

I did a course on development during my psych degree and it was learning about what is the appropriate age to learn XYZ

There are physical limitations like the standard 2 yr olds tongue is not physically developed yet so they can’t talk 

I would be interested to know how they overcome some of these limitations

This is an awful idea.  Kids’ brains need to develop in a certain way.  Reading by 2nd grade is actually unimportant and detrimental

What’s the point of reading at age 2? I still haven’t learned and I’m doing okay.

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