I suspect that you’ve heard this pearl of wisdom before; that we remember 10% of what we hear, 20% of what we read, 50% of what we do. It turns out this is simply not true. This web site illustrates that this factoid is in fact some badly mangled research that does support this supposition at all.
Read and enjoy:
http://www.visualbeing.com/2005/07/08/forget-what-youve-heard-about-remembering/
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another myth busted…
Hi Garry
Thanks for sharing this
Other links about this include:
http://rapidbi.com/management/dale-cone-of-experience-misleading-quotes/
http://www.willatworklearning.com/2006/05/people_remember.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20001210132300/http://www.3m.com/meetingnetwork/presentations/pmag_visualsstudy.html
http://www.indiana.edu/~molpage/Cone%20of%20Experience_text.pdf – good academic review
Its so easy for people in our "industry" to take a concept and demonstrate it as fact, When looking into this a couple of years ago I bought the original publication – a fascinating read, if dated!
Learning myths
Donald Taylor ‘de-bunked’ this myth right here on TrainingZone a couple of years ago!
You only remember 10% of what you read…
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/185067
It started a mini series of debunking, called Modern Myths of Learning, which included
You only use 10% of your brain:
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/186780
And the Creative Right Brain
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/topic/strategy/modern-myths-learning-creative-right-brain
And, of course, there’s Martin Shovel’s feature and splendid animation on the Mehrabian myth:
https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/184720
Enjoy!
I like
I like the way it was interpret and analyze, but I am pretty sure that these devision can make other people to be confuse, specially thos who have not idea at all. Anyway, this is absolutely good for me.
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