Or perhaps not, Canuckguy You’re citing a book. Actually, a book review. Not any sort of consensus. Academic writing, by intention, is supposed to offer some new angle. That doesn’t make it automatically definitive. New studies and new books enter the academic dialogue, that’s all. The next new detail, the latest perspective, isn’t exempt from some critical evaluation. What makes them hold weight or shift the thinking of others is far more than an early review. And certainly not some sidewise glance.
That’s the issue with many studies cited on CC. The detail is only as good as the folks diving into it with such willingness to accept it wholeheartedly. Ooops, am I criticizing their critical thinking?
When they note “a student who entered college in the 50th percentile of students in his or her cohort,” I’d say we already know what issues lie behind this.