Richard P. Feynman already called modern pedagogics a pseudo-science. Now Karpicke demonstrates the fruitlessness of highfalutin learning techniques and proves the old experienced elementary teachers right, who have always stressed the importance of repetition and testing.
Miller sure won’t be read by epidemiologists. Read the rest of this entry »
Iona, de Dreu is a textbook example of how not to do diagrams. Read the rest of this entry »
Huang confirms something I learnt empirically on a youth-leaders’ seminar decades ago. Three other articles by Huang and Galinsky are in press but no preprints yet.
If you wanted to pretend reading more than the compulsory literature, Iona, then Read the rest of this entry »
That Neanderthals ate plants does not surprise, but that they already cooked cereals does (Henry 2011).
According to Die Welt the Neanderthals died out from freezing to death Read the rest of this entry »
Nothing new in Eisenstein but those two pages comprehensively review the current state of research.
The conclusion of Lalueza-Fox is anything but obvious. Read the rest of this entry »
Anderegg uses a funny definition of expert. (See also commentary by Bodenstein.) Somebody with fifty and more peer reviewed articles on one subject obviously is an expert of renown in my eyes. At 500, 700, or more than 900 articles I have serious doubts, if the author can have read them all, he certainly can’t have provided much to their content.
Kerr and Dessler report a correlation of just 0.02 with a regression fit depending on one or two outliers Read the rest of this entry »
