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adults — the adults have never even seen a computer before. Instead, they must rely entirely on their innate learning ability. At this point, the experiment has only just started; I will put details on my website as the experiment progresses.
The 10,000 Hour Club
Learning by experience takes humans quite a bit of time. Anders Ericsson, Professor of Psychology at Florida State University, studied musicians in the early 1990s and found they had accumulated a huge number of practice hours by the time they became experts. His research was popularized by Malcolm Gladwell, in the book Outliers, and by Daniel Coyle in The Talent Code. The idea is that humans need around ten thousand hours of practice to become proficient at a skill. The more skilled players seem to have a simply accumulated even more Dan McLaughlin
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