Questions tagged [learning]

the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study, or by being taught.

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Are 10,000 hours of practice necessary to gain true expertise in a subject?

It's an often repeated internet certainty that, to be truly good at something, you need to practice for 10,000 hours. As far as I have been able to ascertain, this theory (or hypothesis?) gained popularity with Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers. Is…
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Does drawing diagrams lead to 36% higher scores when solving science problems?

Microsoft claims in their Windows 10 press release that drawing diagrams leads to 36% higher scores when solving science problems. More than 70% of people spend more than one hour a day using a pen. Yet, we lose notes in our notebooks, take…
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