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The other day, we discussed how our intuitions aren’t always accurate when it comes to our learning, or the learning of our students. The second big problem arising from reliance on intuition, which we’ll discuss today, is confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is ...
The idea of relying on personal intuition versus expertise has long been debated in medicine. Thankfully, for the most part, expertise is winning the battle against myths such as the link between vaccines and autism: 91.9% of children 19-35 months old are up to date ...
The goal of cognitive psychologists who are applying their work to the educational domain is to encourage “practitioners” (in this case, teachers) to do what has been scientifically demonstrated as effective. The model that we, as cognitive psychologists, ...
