No guts, no glory: underestimating the benefits of providing children with mechanistic details
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-021-00108-5 Previous research shows that children effectively extract and utilize causal information, yet we find that adults doubt children’s ability to understand complex mechanisms. Since adults themselves struggle to explain how everyday objects work, why expect more from children? Although remembering details may prove difficult, we argue that exposure to...
[Book] The science of science
https://www.dashunwang.com/book/the-science-of-science This is the first comprehensive overview of the “science of science,” an emerging interdisciplinary field that relies on big data to unveil the reproducible patterns that govern individual scientific careers and the workings of science. It explores the roots of scientific impact, the role of productivity and creativity, when...
Opt-out choice framing attenuates gender differences in the decision to compete in the laboratory and in the field
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/42/e2108337118 Research shows that women are less likely to enter competitions than men. This disparity may translate into a gender imbalance in holding leadership positions or ascending in organizations. We provide both laboratory and field experimental evidence that this difference can be attenuated with a default nudge—changing the choice to...
Slowed canonical progress in large fields of science
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/41/e2021636118 In many academic fields, the number of papers published each year has increased significantly over time. Policy measures aim to increase the quantity of scientists, research funding, and scientific output, which is measured by the number of papers produced. These quantitative metrics determine the career trajectories of scholars and...
What Type of Job is This: My First Year as Chief Product Officer
https://caseyaccidental.com/chief-product-officer-first-year One dirty secret behind the work of many executives and product leaders is that our strategies aren’t that innovative. There are a few playbooks we generally run to improve performance in companies depending on the business situation after we’ve gathered the right insight. You can run through them and...
BI is dead
https://benn.substack.com/p/bi-is-dead If you have both Looker and Tableau, which one is your BI tool? My blunt answer is Tableau. You answer your questions in Tableau; BI tools are, above all, where questions get answered. Looker, in this realigned world, is squarely in the transformation layer—and specifically, part of the metrics...
Taughtology: The incorrect science of teaching wrongly
https://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2021/10/5-1 Today, generally, spellings are tested weekly, but they are not interleaved with previous week or week’s spellings to allow forgetting and re-testing and thus the weekly spelling tests become single units of massed or blocked practice. … Essentially, many students are learning a block of words for a weekly...
Shifting parental beliefs about child development to foster parental investments and improve school readiness outcomes
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25964-y Socioeconomic gaps in child development open up early, with associated disparities in parental investments in children. Understanding the drivers of these disparities is key to designing effective policies. We first show that parental beliefs about the impact of early parental investments differ across socioeconomic status (SES), with parents of...
Active learning: Hands-on meets minds-on
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj9957 AI from the screen into the physical world When we turn off the system’s intelligent guidance such that students are freely performing tower-building activities on their own (similar to most current museum exhibits and maker spaces), they still enjoy it, but they learn far less (3). Thus, we can...
Room to read: The effect of extra-large letter spacing and coloured overlays on reading speed and accuracy in adolescents with dyslexia
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0891422221002146 Thirty-two dyslexic children were matched on age, verbal and non-verbal IQ with 27 children with no diagnosis of dyslexia. The average age of each group was 13 years. Extra-large letter spacing significantly improved reading speed more substantially for the dyslexia group. In addition, extra-large letters significantly reduced the number...
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