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Comment author: Vladimir_Nesov 09 January 2013 08:14:54PM 19 points [-]

[he was assuming that] people taking my recommendations would be geniuses by-and-large and that the harder book would be better in the long-run for the brightest people who studied from it.

Is this actually true? My current guess is that even though for a given level of training, smarter people can get through harder texts, they will learn more if they go through easier texts first.

Comment author: wedrifid 10 January 2013 07:50:13AM 3 points [-]

Is this actually true? My current guess is that even though for a given level of training, smarter people can get through harder texts, they will learn more if they go through easier texts first.

I think you're right here (enough so that you beat me to my reply nearly verbatim.)

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