A 13-year-old used my artificial nose to diagnose pneumonia
I am not skeptical of the kid being able to do this. Good for them! I&#x27;m sure they will grow up to be an inquisitive and brilliant member of society.<p>However, like many, I feel like this article could be papering over... something.<p>OK I&#x27;ll just say it: Privilege.<p>And hey! Not every kid with privilege ends up being brilliant! And he may not be privileged! But it is a lot easier to succeed when you have it.<p>And my problem with this article is this: We are constantly papering over how much of a difference a good education can make, and how little opportunity to get that quality of education there is in the United States.<p>You often see people bemoaning their lot in life: &quot;Ugh. When Mark Zuckerburg&#x2F;Bill Gates&#x2F;insert CEO was my age, they already started Microsoft!&quot;<p>And my reply to this sentiment is this: How many hundreds of thousands of dollars did your parents spend on your pre-university education? I&#x27;m willing to bet it wasn&#x27;t in the hundreds of thousands.<p>I see this kid is from LA. Sometimes all it takes is being in the right zip code to have access to... science fairs? My school didn&#x27;t even have AP classes! I thought science fairs were something that only happened on TV.<p>I realize this is a bit petty, and it 100% comes from my childhood where I went to a poor rural school where I was a poor student, and so-fucking-desperately wanted more, and then moved to the city, and succeeded, flourished once I got access to a better quality of education. But pretending it isn&#x27;t there feels dishonest.<p>It feels like an onion article headline: &quot;Kid with everything going for him, despite all odds, tremendously succeeds&quot;