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Oct 5, 2020

This is so evident when you hear athletes describe how they do a certain skill to novices of the sport. Maybe this is why any type of short-sprint camp (coding/sports/etc) fails to truly benefit the attendees because of lack of tacit knowledge?

@ejames_c

commoncog.com/blog/tacit-kno

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I think short sprint camps are ok: they give students the basics to go pursue tacit expertise of their own. You can’t learn to write like Hemingway without a bootcamp in grammar.

@mt7328

Oct 5, 2020

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@ejames_c

That's a good point with the assumption being that students are willing to pursue tacit expertise (aka "practice") of their own moving forward. At least in the domain of sports & in my experience, I know students expect the tacit expertise after a short stint.

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But I believe that this may be specific to sports? The expectation is not found (again in my experience) in other skills like writing etc - difference along athletics and "intellectual" activities? I'll have to finish reading the series since I perhaps am way off in my thinking

Cedric Chin

@ejames_c

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@mt7328

Oh, expectancies exist in every skill. It usually presents as 'I expect things to go a certain way, given a (complex) set of conditions'. So in programming, it might be 'if you structure the program like this, prepare to be screwed when we're asked to do X later.'

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Expectancies in writing would be “if I structure this early part in this way, then I’m going to have trouble segueing to that other point I want to make later”. Little things like that. Picking up on expectancies, along with their cues, is a huge bit of human expertise.

@mt7328

Oct 7, 2020

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@ejames_c

Thank you! "Expectancies in skill" is a great way of thinking about it.