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+title: "Learning Style"
+date: 2022-12-29T15:59:11-07:00
+description: "I rant about the myth of learning styles"
+tags: ["thougts", "learning"]
+showTableOfContents: true
+weight: 1
+type: "post"
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+
+# What's Your Learning Style?
+
+Hot take warning.
+
+I think the notion that a person has a preferred learning style is ridiculous.
+I think it is a learned preference and a widely accepted myth, people learn in
+all sorts of different ways depending on the subject matter, environment, and age.
+
+# Why do I care?
+
+Because, I think its annoying when people bring up their learning preference
+to say that they are a visual learner. No one ever brings it up to say they
+have a tactile or auditory learning style. Why? Kinda like how (in my experience)
+whenever someone feels the need to unsolicitedly claim they have native american
+ancestry it is always Cherokee. Nothing against the Cherokee nation, its just funny
+to me that in my experience no one has broken those molds.
+
+The real bone I have to pick with visual learners is I feel it is used as a crutch
+to make some claim that they are unable to participate well in school or complete
+some task because it isn't catered toward their learning style. If anything,
+today would be the greatest time in the history of the world to be a visual
+learner. You can give ai somne words and it creates photo-realistic images.
+Youtube has more content to watch than you could ever get through in your
+lifetime, 1000's fold. And that's one platform. But visual learners, in my mind,
+have a close connotation with lazy zoomer tik-tok scrollers who can 'only learn'
+DIY hacks presented to them in a rapid fire, meme-spliced format. No. Thats
+learned through your terrible habits. Put your phone down and try to read a good
+book. Humans have learned through auditory and written means for thousands of
+years. Now you are gonna tell me there isn't a single auditory or tactile learner
+that brings up this inconvenience when Mr. Bones turns on Bill Nye the Science Guy?
+
+To be realistic, this hardly ever happens, but it is irksome to me when it does.
+
+Turns out [Veritasium](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhgwIhB58PA) made a video
+about this exact thing. He cites reviewing articles that state "There is no
+credible evidence that learning styles exist", so there we go. Just an intellect's imaginary invention.