Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Explainers Shoot High. Aim Low! - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 October 2007 01:13AM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 24 October 2007 05:23:27PM 6 points [-]

The English link didn't seem particularly bad to me - its flaw was that it was deliberately too difficult for its subject matter, not that it was difficult in an absolute sense.

Josh, I don't think I'd have had any trouble following that problem at age 7, which is when I was taught to solve systems of equations.

Self-anchoring. I adjusted because I knew other grade-schoolers weren't as good at math, but, of course, I vastly underadjusted. I really had absolutely no concept of what it meant to not be good at math until a couple of years ago, and I probably still have no concept of it.