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First line in the article: "A majority of people carry the potential to become a genius." I mean, how can the rest of this thing even be taken seriously?
by OneLeggedCat 5y ago
First line in the article: "A majority of people carry the potential to become a genius."
I mean, how can the rest of this thing even be taken seriously?
- zepto 5y agoHe’s obviously wrong, but surely that would apply to anything which embeds the assumption of the blank slate, I.e. almost all modern humanities, and half of social science.
- jodrellblank 5y ago"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html He has a masters degree in molecular biology, another in computer science, a doctoral degree, and has spent 39 years working on learning and cognition, has been one of the main promoters of spaced repetition learning. Surely he deserves more than an "I mean, lol, right guys" dismissal?
- OneLeggedCat 5y agoWe are all above average.