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- From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
- Subject: Re: Question: Abstract Subjects & General academic performance.
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:29:00 GMT
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- In article <1ds3t1INNbtm@agate.berkeley.edu> lmk2@garnet.berkeley.edu () writes:
- >In article <spurrett.34.721489185@superbowl.und.ac.za> spurrett@superbowl.und.ac.za (David Spurrett) writes:
- >>I am interested to hear from anyone who knows of research into the
- >>relationship (empirical, not necessarily causal) between the study of highly
- >>abstract subjects like philosophy and mathematics, and the general academic
- >>performance of the student/s in question. I know of one study which found a
- >>close link between study of phil or math, and dramatically above average
- >>performance in all other areas. This study did not have any control groups
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- I do not know of any such studies myself, but within mathematics, knowing
- the concepts helps in learning the details and special cases, but there is
- not too much evidence of the other direction. However, I do not consider
- arithemtic or calculus or linear algebra as an abstract subject.
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- Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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