Scientists identify two overlooked skills that predict reading success(www.mdpi.com)
1 pointby sshah033 hours ago1 comment
  • sshah033 hours ago
    Basically the strongest predictors were sound recognition and vocabulary, while intelligence and visual processing played a surprisingly small role.

    I remember reading a decade or so ago that early phoneme exposure was one of the most important things to being able to sound native in multiple languages. To me this feels related.

    • t0mpr1c3an hour ago
      You have substituted the authors' words with your own interpretation of the results, which is both reductive and inaccurate.
      • sshah0340 minutes ago
        I guess I could've qualified the statement with "this is my take on it". You are welcome to provide your own in order to make this an engaging discussion, and I am happy to be wrong and learn from your interpretation. I feel like that would be more constructive?

        Doing a re-read I'd agree the latter part of my statement is a bit of an exaggeration, but based on how the paper defined the categories, Gc and Ga having the most meaningful impact overall still seems a fair takeaway. Though if you'd like to call my labels for those categories reductive, that's fair.