Grit Difference

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Hook: In reading this i feel that it the decision to be in grit would not make a difference in your academic performance.

Claim:Being in grit would not make a difference in your academic performance

Evidence:His analysis found an overall correlation of 0.18, looking at papers by Duckworth and others. Duckworth's own numbers, in a paper published in 2007, are only slightly higher: 0.20.

Commentary reasoning: What he saying that he put people through a course to see what the difference would be between a grit student and a non grit student. And the results were almost identical and did not make that big a difference and that was lucid.

Evidence 2:In the various studies Crede looks at, conscientiousness scores and grit scores are very

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