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>the 10 year (or 10,000 hours) road to expertise Why is this figure being bandied about as though it were an actual scientific fact?
by asciilifeform 18y ago
>the 10 year (or 10,000 hours) road to expertise
Why is this figure being bandied about as though it were an actual scientific fact?
- bluishgreen 18y agoBecause its a useful ball park.
- asciilifeform 18y ago>a useful ball park Why do you think so? What actual evidence is there for it?
- Beanblabber 18y agoI think the correct question is what actual evidence is there against it?
- asciilifeform 18y agoThe fact that Gladwell pulled the figure out of thin air?
- mroman 18y agoBecause for many folks, myself included, the opinion of a genius such as Norvig is solid enough to be treated as scientific fact.
- silentbicycle 18y agoAm I the only one who finds that kind of unsettling? This sort of behavior is why, even among scientists, a generation often needs to die out before new ideas can be seriously evaluated. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Structure_of_Scientific_Rev...)
- mroman 18y agoHopefully Edit in reply to your edit: Norvig's theories and conclusions are most certainly subject to being proven wrong by anyone who can manage to do so. You make it sound as if someone is attempting to force someone else to agree with his theories and conclusions, or to prevent someone from agreeing with opposing (or any other) set of conclusions and theories. I see no evidence of that, and come think of it, I do not see evidence of that figure "being bandied about as though it were an actual scientific fact", if you can provide evidence to the contrary, please, by all means do so, or better yet, disprove Norvig's theories and conclusions yourself, no one is stopping you.
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