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It's sad to say, but the majority of people cannot follow a logical progression more than a two or three steps. It's not even an issue of "smart" vs "dumb", as
by dunmalg 14y ago
It's sad to say, but the majority of people cannot follow a logical progression more than a two or three steps. It's not even an issue of "smart" vs "dumb", as many of my quite clever coworkers have this issue. It seems to me to be predicated on the ability to keep a lot of state in your head. If in order to reach an answer you need to synthesize the results of two logical conclusions and you can't keep the first result in your head while you work on the second, you're going to get lost.
- SkyMarshal 14y ago> It seems to me to be predicated on the ability to keep a lot of state in your head. There's some research and discussion among educators and neuroscientists about how working memory may be more important than IQ. IANAE but my anecdotal experience also supports this. http://duckduckgo.com/?q=working+memory+more+important http://duckduckgo.com/?q=working+memory+more+important