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- 12 December, 2008 @ 15:28 by Scott Rosenberg
- 12 December, 2008 @ 15:27 by Scott Rosenberg
My source in the research-on-learning-computer-science field tell me that the two-hump study has been discredited:
http://person.au.dk/da/pub/13254899?id=12285304
Sorry, I haven’t actually read the article myself yet. In particular, I don’t know if this article rips apart the two-hump paper, or if it just has different research that shows a different thing.