[ericd]

Sorry you had such a bad time of it.

I know some people who were homeschooled as kids (unschooled, in one case), and they turned out to be exceptional people. It seems pretty clear from interacting with them that their attitudes and abilities are a direct result of their schooling (and having parents who would be willing to school their kids in that way).

But I'm sure homeschooling can also turn out very badly if the parents aren't fully committed to doing it well.

[alain94040]

Survivorship bias? By definition, you are not likely to meet all the kids who failed miserably with homeschooling. Instead, you are more likely to interact socially or at work with the ones that did great. Therefore, your observation is likely to be biased.

[ericd]

Yeah, fair. I haven’t taken a broad sample of homeschooled kids.

But I do think there’s some signal in the fact that I’m dealing with the success cases of public and home schooling, and the homeschooled ones stand out as exceptional in that population.

What kinds of conclusions can reasonably be drawn from that, though, I don’t know.