Is this what passes for newsworthy, insightful scientific research these days? That "Stress about how one does on tests like college entrance exams can make even good math students choke"? I expect the AAAS to tell me, any day now, that if I don’t watch my step, I might slip and fall!
Of course good students can have performance anxiety–every musician and public speaker in the world knows that. How do they overcome it? [How do you get to Carnegie Hall?] Practice! Of course, it’s not cool to tell every whiny kid with a 350 math SAT score to ditch the XBox and hit the books–you might damage his self-esteem or disrupt his play date schedule.
No wonder people think scientists live in ivory towers, they publish stuff like this.
The Random Texan 
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