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Both of you may be interested in this research from last year: No evidence to back idea of learning styles https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/mar/12/n

• EugeneOZ 8y ago
  It's not research, it's just a manifest.
  • octosphere 8y ago
    We are naturally inclined to have certain biases towards different learning styles. It's really a psychology issue. What bothers me about these studies that claim we should 'work harder' on our weaknesses (i.e visual learners should read more books/text) - is that we should also build on strength. When you bolster one learning style and neglect the other, but learn more in the process of the preferred learning style, then why not see it to the end, and understand / digest the knowledge gained? I guess it is about balance. If I am a pure visual (or auditory) learner, then surely I would have learned that books/text have their place. I imagine that the greatest learners out there use all the learning styles but still have a bias towards their learning style. How pronounced that bias is, is still unknown.
• tyingq 8y ago
  Of course, no study is needed to confirm that people have preferences...regardless of outcome.