I wrote the rough equivalent for articles I am writing/planning to write..
I liked that post. Those sort of posts are brilliant as well. For the suggested articles post, I was thinking more of something like this:
I think that I am going to move away from the reasoning aspect of the mental model theory just because there seems to be some justifiable reasons for why the wording of the examples it uses to convey itself may be skewing the results. That is, people interpret the problems in a different way and this might just be all there is to them getting the answer 'wrong'. I don't know if this issue has been dealt with in the literature on mental models. I still think that mental model theory is a interesting area to look into. But, I probably wont be able to get/devote the time to it that I need to before I am able to expand on and deal with the issues with the overview of mental model theory post I wrote. If anyone thinks that this would be an interesting idea to look into, I recommend reading this book. I haven't read it, but Johnson-Laird - the author - is the originator of the mental model theory and most prolific writer on the subject.
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Yes. Me. Write to me! Write about things; I will read things and make suggestions.
I might do this after I have planned out some potential posts.
I'm wondering what the optimal number of people on the leaderboard would be. I suspect that people who appear on the leaderboard post more often because they want to remain on it. The other advantage, is that if the leaderboard seems in reach, more people will compete to get on it.On the other hand, if too many people were added to the leaderboard, then "being on the leaderboard" would be worthless and people would only care if they had a high position.
There are currently 15 people on the leaderboard. I suspect that if there were 20 people on the leaderboard, that would increase the motivation effect, without significantly devaluing being on the leaderboard itself.
What do people think?