BenLowell comments on Why do people commit mathematical mistakes? What are the mechanisms behind them? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: BenLowell 08 September 2011 05:16:24AM 0 points [-]

What techniques do you have for reducing careless errors? How do these scale in stressful/timed situations?

Comment author: GuySrinivasan 09 September 2011 04:23:57AM 0 points [-]

I don't have any explicit techniques now. Apparently then, "most of your careless errors were in math, so I had you solve each problem and then re-work each backward." was the only technique my mom remembers. That clearly doesn't scale to timed situations.