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Abstraction, intuition, and the “monad tutorial fallacy” | blog :: Brent -> [String]
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<blockquote>While working on an article for the Monad.Reader, I've had the opportunity to think about how people learn and gain intuition for abstraction, and the implications for pedagogy. The heart of the matter is that people begin with the concrete, and move to the abstract. Humans are very good at pattern recognition, so this is…</blockquote>
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Humans weren’t designed to be rational, and we benefit hugely from our mental biases — Quartz
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<blockquote>In the 1970s, two psychologists proved, once and for all, that humans are not rational creatures. Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky discovered “cognitive biases,” showing that that humans systematically make choices that defy clear logic. But what Kahneman and Tversky acknowledged, and is all too often overlooked, is that being irrational is a good thing. We humans...</blockquote>
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