Claims

The authors estimate that clearly stating the meaning of gauss would have saved each learner about 30 minutes, much irritation, and at least ten per cent in errors

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · causal r1 · q1
Currency · newest study 1922 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims

Reading the evidence codes

q is the design tier, i the impact, n the sample, and the kind with its r the rigour judged within that kind: what each code means.

This claim: no standardized effect is recorded in observations/ for it yet, so no benchmark reading is possible.

q1 i? Irritation was notable at task features that seemed irrelevant and at difficulties the text did not provide for, such as the unexplained meaning of gauss. → Thorndike 1922

Evidence

Thorndike 1922

Thorndike, E. L., & Upton, C. B. (1922). An Experiment in Learning an Abstract Subject. The Journal of Educational Psychology, 13(6). https://doi.org/10.1037/h0065229

q1 · i? · causal · r1

The authors' estimate, not a measured comparison: had the text clearly stated the meaning of gauss and its relation to unit-pole force, there would have been "a saving per person of 30 minutes time, much irritation and at least ten per cent in errors."

"We estimate that if it had stated it clearly and emphatically there would have been a saving per person of 30 minutes time, much irritation and at least ten per cent in errors."

Discussion

Page metadata
Field Value
type claim
id clear-definition-saves-time-and-errors
title The authors estimate that clearly stating the meaning of gauss would have saved each learner about 30 minutes, much irritation, and at least ten per cent in errors
description The authors estimate that clearly stating the meaning of gauss would have saved each learner about 30 minutes, much irritation, and at least ten per cent in errors
status review
evidence_strength weak
newest_evidence 1922
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-24
trust unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
sources 1 — thorndike-1922

Frontmatter is the page's machine-readable record — see the Schema & Guide.