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Acquired skill of a very special sort influences other activities, sometimes helping and sometimes hindering them

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 1909 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

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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.

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q2 i? The experiments show that specially acquired skill does influence other activities, slightly increasing achievement by one agency and decidedly hindering it by another. → Linus W. Kline 1909

Evidence

Linus W. Kline 1909

Linus W. Kline, Ph.D. (1909). Some Experimental Evidence in Regard to Formal Discipline. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Some+experimental+evidence+in+regard+to+formal+discipline%22+Kline

q2 · i? · causal · r1

Author's discussion of both studies: letter practice slightly helped hand-eye co-operation in the test work but prejudiced apprehension of words as parts of speech, so the same training helped one agency and hindered another.

"It shows that acquired skill of a very special sort does influence other activities. Here it slightly increased achievement by one agency and decidedly hindered it by another."

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type claim
id kline-special-skill-influences-other-activities
title Acquired skill of a very special sort influences other activities, sometimes helping and sometimes hindering them
description Acquired skill of a very special sort influences other activities, sometimes helping and sometimes hindering them
status review
evidence_strength moderate
newest_evidence 1909
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-23
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