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Ah, Yes, the Humanities: Researchers Find Lack of Credible Evidence for Entrenched Ideas in the Humanities About Learning

By Andis Kaulins

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We have been ranting and raving for years about the lack of probative evidence in the humanities for many of their misguided theories and ideas.

Here is yet another example, from the New York Times, relating to research reported about at "Mind" by Benedict Carey in Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits:

"?The contrast between the enormous popularity of the learning-styles approach within education and the lack of credible evidence for its utility is, in our opinion, striking and disturbing,? the researchers concluded."

As you might imagine, this is a currently very popular article, which you can read in entirety here.

Full post as published by LawPundit on September 09, 2010 (boomark / email).

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