I know there is a saying about "I remember x% of wehat I hear, Y% of what I see and Z% of what I do"
but I can't remember the figures and I don't know who to attribute it to - can anyone help?
Suzanne Aitken
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Proverb
There is a Confucius quotation which says “what I Hear, I Forget, what I see I remember and what I do I know”
Confusing Confucius?
You may be confusing Confucius with the work of Albert Mehrabian who claimed this classic statistic for the effectiveness of spoken communications:
• 7% of meaning is in the words that are spoken.
• 38% of meaning is paralinguistic (the way that the words are said).
• 55% of meaning is in facial expression.
Origin of statistics
In the Book The Learning Revolution by Dryden & Vos there is the following quote:
“We learn 10% of what we read
15% of what we hear
80% of what we experience
Global village in action, article On The Beam, winter 1992 published by new horizons for learning”
Quoted on p96
I have tried to trace it further without success.
Memory stats
Suzanne
See also https://www.trainingzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=164439
Graham