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		darawk on June 19, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Think Less, Think Better I really wish people would stop drawing insanely over-broad conclusions from studies of something that is really quite narrow. The leap from 'cognitive load decreases variability of free associations' to 'we should all go on silent retreats' is pretty silly and enormous.

quadrangle on June 19, 2016 [–]

Yeah, but leap works perfectly well… if it were presented as a hypothesis. It's only the jump to conclusions that is the problem.

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