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Comment author: GLaDOS 04 July 2012 03:23:35PM *  13 points [-]

I think something very important to remember here is that different people learn differently

Weren't learning styles type ideas mostly debunked or rather turned out to be something for which very little evidence existed?

The most recent evidence suggests that how one is raised has an extremely significant effect on all aspects of mental ability - I think that that is likely to be far more important than anything which happens in school.

I would very much like citation since your most recent evidence conflicts with most of the other evidence I am aware of! From what I know early childhood interventions produce effects but these are temporary gains that mostly wear off over time, having very little to no effect on adult performance.

Comment author: somervta 04 July 2012 07:50:59PM *  16 points [-]

Having done some research, I find that you are correct, at least as regards to parenting and genetics. My 'cached' opinion was based on misleading information absorbed for what I though was good reason, but, on reflection, was just blindly following authority. Retracted.

Comment author: GLaDOS 04 July 2012 08:15:14PM *  13 points [-]

Citing any key material you looked up might be useful for other people. Awesome job on actually checking out the literature yourself a bit and updating!

Rationalist hugs for you (if you want them)!

(^_^)

Comment author: Alicorn 04 July 2012 09:31:17PM 5 points [-]

You're adorable.

Comment author: GLaDOS 05 July 2012 05:26:37AM 3 points [-]

I'm not sure how to take that.

Comment author: Alicorn 05 July 2012 05:49:50AM 3 points [-]

As encouragement :)

Comment author: DanArmak 04 July 2012 04:14:08PM *  0 points [-]

Weren't learning styles type ideas mostly debunked or rather turned out to be something for which very little evidence existed?

I don't know. But the converse is that there's one style that's optimal for nearly everybody. Yet many different styles are used in practice around the world. Which style is supposed to be best?

ETA: retracted, my bad. I thought you were talking about "teaching styles" not "learning styles".

Comment author: somervta 04 July 2012 07:11:06PM *  0 points [-]

Actually, teaching styles is more what I meant. Perhaps a better phrasing would have been different people respond to learning differently, though that still doesn't sound right. For this, I have only anecdotal evidence, albeit quite strong. I've seen it, both in people I've tried to teach things to, and in people I've learned alongside.

Comment author: Dreaded_Anomaly 04 July 2012 08:25:51PM 2 points [-]

I find the reactions to this topic in this thread very interesting, given that the (currently) second-most-upvoted article on the site contains this passage:

There's a lot of data on teaching methods that students enjoy and learn from. I had some of these methods...inflicted...on me during my school days, and I had no intention of abusing my own students in the same way. And when I tried the sorts of really creative stuff I would have loved as a student...it fell completely flat. What ended up working? Something pretty close to the teaching methods I'd hated as a kid. Oh. Well. Now I know why people use them so much. And here I'd gone through life thinking my teachers were just inexplicably bad at what they did, never figuring out that I was just the odd outlier who couldn't be reached by this sort of stuff.

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