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Why We Get Fooled

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Importance of Mindset Training in Education

There are a lot of badish things that happen in education, I can say. It took a long time for large randomized trials to catch up and find out that the effect of mindset training on educational outcomes is minuscule. There's really no good data from cognitive science that tells you that if we test you with a questionnaire and you test as a verbal learner and I test as a spatial learner, there's no evidence that presenting material to you in a different form will actually on net increase our learning. Probably the way material should be presented is the way it's the most natural for that form.

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