Benjamin Bloom
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Sep 14, 2026
Leah BelskyGUEST
I think AI does have potential to one day become that personalized tutor.
Leah BelskyGUEST
And just like a little c- little context, the reason why people are so excited about that tutor concept is there's a study by this guy Benjamin Bloom, and what he found is that when you are trying to teach a topic and you compare the results of kids who are learning in the classroom to those who are learning with a tutor, the speed at which those who are learning with a one-on-one tutor is just miles ahead.
Leah BelskyGUEST
There's a huge, huge difference.
Leah BelskyGUEST
But historically, you know- Obviously, there's not, there's not the opportunity in this world today for everyone to have a real life tutor.
speaker_4HOST
And the data backing this up is mind-blowing.
speaker_4HOST
We have to dive deep into Benjamin Bloom's 1984 study.
speaker_4HOST
For anyone in education, this is famous.
speaker_4HOST
It's called the two sigma problem.
John WarnerGUEST
And frankly, I find it exciting and encouraging.
Robert BosleyHOST
Yeah, and if you were starting this back in 2005, because Shrona and I started this several years after that, and there was a lot of great theory books going as far back as Bloom's, not Susan Bloom's, but Benjamin Bloom's Mastery Learning going back into the 60s.
Robert BosleyHOST
Yeah, I would have killed to have had a book like David Clark's and Robert Tabard's Grading for Growth book back when we started, which...
Sharona KrinskyHOST
So instead we became a case study in that book.
speaker_1HOST
But to understand why MIT is even pursuing this, you have to look at the educational problem they are trying to solve.
speaker_1HOST
It goes back to a famous concept in educational psychology called Bloom's two-sigma problem.
speaker_0HOST
Explain the two-sigma problem because it explains why personalized tutoring is the holy grail of education.
speaker_1HOST
In the nineteen eighties, educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom discovered that a student who receives one-on-one tutoring performs, on average, two standard deviations or two sigmas better than a student learning in a traditional classroom environment.
speaker_0HOST
Two standard deviations is massive.
speaker_1HOST
It's huge.
Benjamin BloomHOST
Let me know particularly what do you think your club needs? Give me a player, give me a position for this final week.
Benjamin BloomHOST
As always, please hit the thumbs up, subscribe to this channel and somewhere up there, At the end of the video, you can subscribe to the Benjamin Bloom Clips channel.
Benjamin BloomHOST
Right.
Benjamin BloomHOST
West Ham, we knew was going to be the churniest, even of the parachute teams, but of every team in the league.
Sal KhanGUEST
But it left a lot of people behind.
Sal KhanGUEST
And Benjamin Bloom quantified this in nineteen eighty-four, where he wrote this two-sigma problem.
Sal KhanGUEST
Two sigma refers to two standard deviation.
Sal KhanGUEST
He was, as far as I know, the first that really tried to measure the effect of personalized tutoring, and he made an argument that it would be a two standard deviation improvement.
Benjamin BloomHOST
We checked in.
Benjamin BloomHOST
last week get down there in the comments with your views on the done deals the links the rumors for each and every club in the EFL championship while you are down there make sure you have subscribed to this channel make sure you've hit the thumbs up on this video and somewhere around there at the end you can subscribe to the Benjamin Bloom Clips channel as well really really busy week probably in terms of done deals the busiest period we've had so far as i say a because of that mad rush to get people registered for round one and b because Those loanees are really, really happening now.
Benjamin BloomHOST
The Premier League are sorting out their squads and they know which players they are happy to loan down to the EFL Championship.
Benjamin BloomHOST
Did I mention a record breaker? Let's start with the parachute teams and that record breaker, Blaker.
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Benjamin BloomHOST
Max Bird has gone to Birmingham.
Benjamin BloomHOST
I didn't realise Max Bird started at Birmingham.
Benjamin BloomHOST
It was John in the Benjamin Bloom WhatsApp group posted that in there.
Benjamin BloomHOST
I hadn't realised that at all.
GrahamHOST
But there's another fanbase gearing up for what they hope will be a nice new exciting season in the shape of Newly.
GrahamHOST
promoted Ipswich Town and when we play Ipswich there's only one man that ever comes on to this podcast to preview the game welcome back to the show Premier League Benjamin Bloom how are you doing you all right
Benjamin BloomGUEST
I'm all right how many of the seven years of the podcast have I made an appearance on at least five isn't it
GrahamHOST
the first season at least well at least five seasons so you would say this could be double figures potentially
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Benjamin BloomGUEST
being this is all in your head, I can probably spook you by predicting an Ipswich win, can't I? Because then you're going to have this existential crisis of, oh, do I now go against him or has he set me up? Does he not believe Ipswich are going to win and he's just done it to stitch me up? I've got to go for an Ipswich win, haven't I? Because I need some hope for the season.
Benjamin BloomGUEST
And as you said, with the fixtures coming up afterwards, if Ipswich lose to Sunderland and they've got one or zero points from the first three or four games, then...
Benjamin BloomGUEST
You know, I'm very much enjoying the Benjamin Bloom Football Channel covering the championship.
GrahamHOST
Right, this is going to bite me on the arse, but I'll just do it.