Education appears unable to remedy severely defective sensory mechanisms such as color-blindness or tonal deafness¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · theoretical r2 · q1
Currency · newest study 1915 · 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? In individuals whose sensory mechanism falls far short of normal capacities, no amount of subsequent education seems to remedy the deficiency, as in color-blindness or tonal deafness. → G. M. W 1915

Evidence¶

G. M. W 1915¶

G. M. W. (1915). The Problem of Sense Training. The Journal of Educational Psychology, Vol. VI, No. 9. https://worldcat.org/search?q=Journal+of+Educational+Psychology+Volume+VI+1915

q1 · i? · theoretical · r2

Theoretical argument from the editorial, appealing to color-blindness and tonal deafness as witnesses. Hedged with seems; no study or data is cited.

"In those individuals whose sensory mechanism is so defective as to fall far short of these normal capacities no amount of subsequent "education" seems to remedy the deficiency—witness color-blindness or tonal deafness."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

Access — outcome: instruction changes it

Apparent improvements from systematic sensory training locate in central factors such as attention and understanding, so strictly there is no sense training — a broader claim this one bears on

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`title`	`Education appears unable to remedy severely defective sensory mechanisms such as color-blindness or tonal deafness`
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