The End of Average: Todd Rose's '8 for 8'

Eight Harvard Ed School faculty members have eight minutes each to present their bold ideas for impact.
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[@gregknappandfamily1582]

Great message and information. So helpful for people who keep trying to fit in to the "average" and can't do it. There is hope! My wife uses this idea as she teaches her first graders. We need more colleges, business owners, and team leaders to get this, too. Thanks, Todd.

[@bloom4096]

“The average represented nobody.” 💯

[@teresaloureiro2525]

' ... BUT WE CAN ' T DO IT ON AVERAGE ' . this is great .

[@JonathanGallantMills]

The mean is not a real value. The same is true for 'the average person'.
We are all outliers on countless variables.

[@CurtHowland]

Wasn't this same talk given about spaghetti sauce some ten years ago?

[@billziss9824]

How does this scale?

[@VallinSFAS]

"The average represented nobody." Sho'-nuf; nuf'-said.

[@carvedouttastone]

As usual, lots of idealistic rhetoric, but very little actionable advice or practical examples as to how teachers with classes of 30+ students make these concepts a working reality in their day to day.

[@Torbu6286]

You can't do everything at once they were still at early times of their study "aS uSuAl LoTs blah blah" have some humility blud, don't think you know it all, they've improved now and started a non profit centre.

[@TaniaAlexandraSmith]

There are few cases when using an average is valid. Furthermore, it is never valid if you don't have a measure of dispersion. So, that 'average brain' is totally absurd,