I've been reading the Homeschool Recovery sub and it leaves me wondering if this has ever been successful, for anyone

edit: sorry if this was unclear, I don't think that a group for people who hate the fact that they were homeschooled is a representative sample of the population, moreso that a lot of the qualitative points they brought up seemed pretty true to me

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    I suspect it does in at least a small percentage of the cases. My lazy ass hereby invokes the toupée fallacy...

    Toupée fallacy - RationalWiki

    The toupée fallacy is an informal logical fallacy regarding silent evidence and the problem of induction. It is a type of selection bias (and of survivorship bias) that is most readily summed up by the following phrase: '

    "All toupées look fake; I've never seen one that I couldn't tell was fake."

    It should be obvious that such a phrase can only be said about bad toupées — ones that look fake — and not actually all toupées. If the person uttering this phrase saw a convincing toupée, they wouldn't have noticed it at all! Hence it is a fallacy to draw such a conclusion from a horrendously limited evidence base.

    But a toupée is only cosmetically ugly. Homeschooling seems to lead to a lot of really bad choices by parents and it makes a significant percentage of the kids significantly fucked up adults.