If one approach is simply better—why isn’t everybody doing it?
Many people don’t live in places where they have to parallel-park in tight spaces frequently. (Are there many people who do who don’t use the better approach? I don’t know.)
The better way (reversing) isn’t the maximally intuitive or direct way. (I don’t remember if I was ever taught it, but if so I definitely didn’t internalize it and had to re-learn from experience. If I was taught it, it was when I was learning to drive, and it feels like it’d be hard to understand why it’s better without more experience.)
Learned blankness, or aversion to paying enough attention to a stressful/anxious thing to learn how to do it better.
Thank you for linking learned blankness—that’s a very interesting post just generally.
The better way (reversing) isn’t the maximally intuitive or direct way.
I’m keen to see other instances where the transmission or difficulty teaching something is preventing the proliferation of a valuable and demonstrably better approach to something
The difficulty of learning by a given method depends in part on what prerequisites are needed to understand it, and which of those prerequisites a given student has.
Many people don’t live in places where they have to parallel-park in tight spaces frequently. (Are there many people who do who don’t use the better approach? I don’t know.)
The better way (reversing) isn’t the maximally intuitive or direct way. (I don’t remember if I was ever taught it, but if so I definitely didn’t internalize it and had to re-learn from experience. If I was taught it, it was when I was learning to drive, and it feels like it’d be hard to understand why it’s better without more experience.)
Learned blankness, or aversion to paying enough attention to a stressful/anxious thing to learn how to do it better.
Thank you for linking learned blankness—that’s a very interesting post just generally.
I’m keen to see other instances where the transmission or difficulty teaching something is preventing the proliferation of a valuable and demonstrably better approach to something
The difficulty of learning by a given method depends in part on what prerequisites are needed to understand it, and which of those prerequisites a given student has.