Your article attacks a strawman. Just because, “Learners will have [sic] experience better educational outcomes when the instructional design matches their learning style,” is not true, that doesn’t mean learning styles don’t exist.
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Replying to @David_desJ @effortfuleduktr and
What experimental result(s) would suffice to prove that learning styles do not exist? Is the hypothesis of their existence falsifiable? Certain plausible inferences made from this hypothesis now seem empirically untenable. Which would you propose as decisive?
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Replying to @MathPrinceps @effortfuleduktr and
The inference that teachers can adapt their teaching methods so that they somehow are more effective with students with different learning styles always seemed like quite a stretch to me. Refuting that hardly refutes the idea of the learning styles in the first place.
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Replying to @David_desJ @effortfuleduktr and
In substance, you have merely restated your position. You have omitted to respond to my question.
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Replying to @MathPrinceps @effortfuleduktr and
I gave a simple experiment earlier. In a lab, present information in different ways: e.g., oral, written, pictorial. See if subjects take in information from one mode better than another, and whether it differs from subject to subject. That will confirm (or falsify) the effect.
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Replying to @David_desJ @effortfuleduktr and
Forgive me; I failed to notice that you had already made such a proposal. Twitter is frustrating in this respect, that it is frequently hard to trace the history of a discussion. I can still imagine objections to the strategy you propose, but I acknowledge this to be a response.
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Replying to @MathPrinceps @David_desJ and
Since you maintain that learning styles exist, I presume you believe that the experiment you prescribe has, in substance, been performed, with adequate care taken to prevent or account for systematic errors. Can you supply a reference?
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Replying to @MathPrinceps @effortfuleduktr and
I don't know of people doing exactly that. Unfortunately, psychologists don't tend to do the experiments they should do. I do know that the expert who posted, "Learning styles don't exist," agreed that if you did this experiment he would expect to see clear differences.
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Replying to @David_desJ @effortfuleduktr and
Do you consider this sufficient to justify asserting that learning styles exist? Would it not be epistemically more prudent, in the absence of clear empirical evidence, to maintain the logically parsimonious contrary hypothesis?
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Replying to @MathPrinceps @effortfuleduktr and
I don't understand your question. By definition, if different people receive information from different modes with different levels of effectiveness, I think that's what a "learning style" is.
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I am maintaining that it is possible the experiment you propose might show a null result. Do you deny this?
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