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Judgment & ambiguity · Calibrating confidence

A struggling third-grader is on the line for retention. The reading data says hold back; the math is fine; the teacher and parent both think another year would harm him socially. How sure can you be, and what do you recommend?

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I hold this one with genuine humility, because the evidence is mixed and the research on retention itself is contested — I can't be highly confident either way, and pretending otherwise would be the failure.…

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