Link to "Errors vs. Bugs and the End of Stupidity"

[frobisherw]

A common mental model for performance is what I'll call the "error model."  In the error model, a person's performance of a musical piece (or performance on a test) is a perfect performance plus some random error. ... But we could also consider the "bug model" of errors. A person taking a test or playing a piece of music is executing a program, a deterministic procedure.  If your program has a bug, then you'll get a whole class of problems wrong, consistently.

Quoted from http://celandine13.livejournal.com/33599.html

 

 

 

Do read the whole thing! Interesting and thoughtful essay from 2012 on learning. Inspired by Mel Baggs essays.

Comments

[silk_dragon_zen]

Interesting, and to some extent, I agree. But if practicing reading were all there were to overcoming dyslexia, I would have overcome it long ago. I'm still severely disabled by dyslexia, so there's got to be more to it than that.

[frobisherw]

I think that matches what the essay is saying -- that practice isn't enough, without identifying and fixing flaws in the procedure used. The essay doesn't say it explicitly, but I think there certainly can be procedural flaws (e.g. in dyslexia, physical features of ones perception) that aren't fixable (currently).

[silk_dragon_zen]

That's my thinking as well.