Why Music Educators Really Understand Skills

Why Don't Well-Educated Adults Understand Accumulation? A Challenge to Researchers, Educators, and Citizens

Accumulation is a fundamental process in dynamic systems: inventory accumulates production less shipments; the national debt accumulates the federal deficit. Effective decision making in such systems requires an understanding of the relationship between stocks and the flows that alter them. However, highly educated people are often unable to infer the behavior of simple stock–flow systems. In a...

Why We Don’t Really Know What “Statistical Significance” Means: Implications for Educators*

Why They Don’t Understand?

Do We Really Understand Quantum Mechanics?

Do we really need another book on quantum mechanics? Quantum mechanics is one of the greatest scientific achievements, and yet it is still controversial how we should interpret it and what conclusions we are entitled to draw from it. Because of this, it has inevitably attracted many writers, both physicists and philosophers. So, hasn't enough ink been spilled about the subject already? Who need...

Do we really understand tacit knowledge?

This paper advances the claim that tacit knowledge has been greatly misunderstood in management studies. Nonaka and Takeuchi’s widely adopted interpretation of tacit knowledge as knowledge awaiting “translation” or “conversion” into explicit knowledge is erroneous: contrary to Polanyi’s argument, it ignores the essential ineffability of tacit knowledge. In the paper I show why the idea of focus...