Knowing Knowledge
Section 07

Transfer

Transfer is where this literature is weakest and most often overstated. Near transfer is well supported; the claim that practice improves reasoning in genuinely unrelated domains is the one that keeps failing to replicate.

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FIG. 01What transfers is tested by changing the problem, not by repeating it.Photo: Tima Miroshnichenko / Pexels