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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 29 December 2013 09:29:55PM 4 points [-]

Maybe, but here are two other hypotheses:

  1. People who think about pedagogy write more specific tutorials, but what makes the tutorial good is a separate effect of thinking about pedagogy.

  2. There was nothing special about the last tutorial; you just needed repeated exposure to the concepts.