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Comment author: ahbwramc 04 July 2012 11:00:13PM *  2 points [-]

That's a good point, I'm not sure that any research shows long-term convergence among students. I may have overstated the point. I guess what I was thinking was that in the long run, all students would improve so much as to make any initial differences unimportant (which may or may not be the case, but it can't be assumed)

Edit: yeah, I can't seem to fix the link, the bracket at the end seems to be screwing it up. Anyone know how to fix it?

Comment author: Emile 05 July 2012 08:04:08AM *  1 point [-]

You need to use escape characters instead of brackets, like this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindset_%28book%29

Note that when I copy a URL from Firefox's address bar, the brackets are automatically escaped (I can just paste the result); but when I right-click on a link and select "Copy Link Location", the brackets aren't escaped, and I get http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindset_(book).