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This is an example of a myth that just won't die. The Skeptics Society (to give but one example) has been trying for years to put this nonsense to rest: https:

This is an example of a myth that just won't die. The Skeptics Society (to give but one example) has been trying for years to put this nonsense to rest: https://www.skeptic.com/insight/the-myth-of-learning-styles/ https://www.skeptic.com/insight/the-myth-of-learning-styles/ I have even made multiple visits to my children's schools and tried to explain the actual research connected with pedagogy and communication but to little avail: https://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/pspi/PSPI_9_3.pdf https://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/pspi/PSPI_9_3.... Like the myth that "we only use 10% of our brains", the myth about learning styles seems immortal.

Izkata 9y ago
> Like the myth that "we only use 10% of our brains" I've heard that the commonly-debunked version of this is a totally misrepresented version of the original claim. The debunked one being that we only use 10% of our brain matter ever, while the original claim was something more like "at a given instant in time, only ~10% of your neurons are firing".
- taejo 9y ago
  > "at a given instant in time, only ~10% of your neurons are firing". At any given instant in time, your computer is using less than 50% of its RAM: more than half of the bits are off!