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What Scale And The Voltage Effect Mean
- Scaling is taking a successful small idea and testing whether its results hold when expanded to larger populations and settings.
- The Voltage Effect describes how many strong small results shrink when scaled and become only a fraction of their original impact.
Preschool Success In Chicago Heights
- John started a preschool in Chicago Heights and moved children's cognitive and noncognitive test scores with his curriculum.
- Policymakers responded skeptically, claiming his program 'would never scale.'
Scaling Is A Weakest‑Link Problem
- Scaling is usually a weakest-link problem rather than a silver-bullet problem; many different dimensions can cause failure at scale.
- Scalable ideas tend to be alike, while each unscalable idea fails in its own unique way (the Anna Karenina principle).
