If you intend to make a mistake, you didn’t make a mistake. Or more usefully, if you already knew the subject well enough to make the right mistake, you won’t learn that much. Useful information only happens for me when I genuinely don’t know if what I’m doing is right or not.
This is similar to the idea from probability theory where maximal evidence is gained from an experiment when your prior is 50⁄50.
If you intend to make a mistake, you didn’t make a mistake. Or more usefully, if you already knew the subject well enough to make the right mistake, you won’t learn that much. Useful information only happens for me when I genuinely don’t know if what I’m doing is right or not.
This is similar to the idea from probability theory where maximal evidence is gained from an experiment when your prior is 50⁄50.
Yea. On the other hand, if you’re tutoring someone else it might be effective to deliberately manipulate your students into making the right mistakes.