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9 Post author: hegemonicon 05 October 2009 03:51AM

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Comment author: taw 05 October 2009 05:15:16AM 3 points [-]

Children obviously learn at an enormous rate

What evidence do we have for it? There seems to be gradual deterioration of language learning facilities, and at very old age mental facilities are generally diminished, but other than that, is it true than children learn significantly faster than non-senile adults?

Comment author: hegemonicon 05 October 2009 04:15:12PM 1 point [-]

Hrmmm, there doesn't seem to be any (though google turns up suprisingly little in either direction). So much for 'common knowledge'.

I've removed the reference, thanks for the catch.