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You don't think "reducing cognitive load" means "dumbing down" ? I'm not so much editorializing but translating to common speech. I stand by it. That's prett
by tosseraccount 11y ago
You don't think "reducing cognitive load" means "dumbing down" ?
I'm not so much editorializing but translating to common speech.
I stand by it. That's pretty much what they were saying.
- rbehrends 11y agoNo, it's not equivalent. Reducing cognitive load includes (in particular) the elimination of extraneous, non-germane, or duplicate information or tasks. A specific example that the paper gives is filling out long forms; if you can replace a long form with a shorter one, that is a reduction in cognitive load and bureaucracy, but it is not "dumbing down" anything.