I mean, you’d get exactly the same results even if the pupils learned absolutely nothing and the quality of the photo has some kind of stable distribution. To control if people did or didn’t learn anything, one would at least need to perform this as an actual experiment and grade the 3 next photos after the learning phase was done. The initial story seems to be only a parable as per Claude of one commenter below and my ChatGPT instance. My personal opinion is that at the beginner level, doing some amount of attempts does help your brain make sense of what’s happening; afterwards, it’s the feedback loops which are key. And specifically in this example, from some point at the skill curve, to learn to make great shots, one would need to practice making great shots with a teacher.
I mean, you’d get exactly the same results even if the pupils learned absolutely nothing and the quality of the photo has some kind of stable distribution. To control if people did or didn’t learn anything, one would at least need to perform this as an actual experiment and grade the 3 next photos after the learning phase was done. The initial story seems to be only a parable as per Claude of one commenter below and my ChatGPT instance.
My personal opinion is that at the beginner level, doing some amount of attempts does help your brain make sense of what’s happening; afterwards, it’s the feedback loops which are key. And specifically in this example, from some point at the skill curve, to learn to make great shots, one would need to practice making great shots with a teacher.