Douglas_Reay comments on SotW: Be Specific - Less Wrong

37 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 April 2012 06:11AM

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Comment author: Douglas_Reay 09 April 2012 06:09:29PM 2 points [-]

"Open with the concrete example, not the abstract explanation!"

Whether concrete-first or abstract-first works better may well be a cognitive style that varies quite a bit with culture.

Kamentz & Womser-Hacker, 2003, Defining Culture-Bound User Characteristics as a Starting-Point for the Design of Adaptive Learning Systems