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- From: bender@osc.edu (Charlie Bender)
- Subject: Re: Question: Abstract Subjects & General academic performance.
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 23:27:27 GMT
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- Herman Rubin (hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu) wrote:
- : 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
- :
- : 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.
- : --
- : Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
- : Phone: (317)494-6054
- : hrubin@snap.stat.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet)
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