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Dr. Steven Pinker: Psychologist, psycholinguist and author

Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott

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Pattern Matching With a Literature

i think the way that many scientists learn to write is by reading a bunch of scientific literature. And so if you're just pattern magic against a literature, like i now, but it's very hard to learn how to be an excellent writer. N i thing it is pattern matching with a literature, which is how writers acquire their style. The most common answer was, none. When they use they read aloud. They read a lot of good prose and a, that kind of that,. That process can then be high jacked if the input to that pattern matching system is academic prose. It's hobbled by what i call the curse of knowledge, a term i borrowed from behavior economics.

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