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I might be missing something here but isn't there a big difference between "we don't have any conclusive evidence yet" and "this is a myth and is false"? Also,

I might be missing something here but isn't there a big difference between "we don't have any conclusive evidence yet" and "this is a myth and is false"? Also, I think some of the persistence of this "myth" is that people (adults) will flat-out tell you that they may not be able to absorb certain information without seeing some visual representation of it, whereas others will tell they can understand more easily, for example, just from a verbal description.

dhimes 11y ago
Thus far, falsifiable hypotheses test to "false." Perhaps we are not framing the problem properly. Here's a quick assessment: When somebody gets directions from Google maps, do they prefer the written, listed directions, or the map (in the happy circumstance where both conveyed the same information)? Some people prefer the lists; some the maps. So we might think of the former as verbal learners and the latter as visual. The problem is, in the context of learning, both (self-described) verbal and visual learners seem to learn better visually.
- vorg 11y ago
  > both (self-described) verbal and visual learners seem to learn better visually Though I'm guessing verbal learners and visual learners both learn better when doing a task utilizing both visual and verbal senses, than they would doing either a visual only or a verbal only task. The verbal-visual distinction could be a distinction between 60% verbal / 40% visual on the one hand and 40% verbal / 60% visual on the other. I'd also guess that if students are forced to make some body movements (kinesthetic learning) at the same time as speaking/listening (verbal) and watching/diagramming (visual), retention of material is even greater for virtually all of them.