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Blood Clerics 🩸

Blood Clerics 🩸

Iphigenia and Her Parents

Really happy I got this done I loved sticking to the pottery and bronze colour tones. I originally wanted to copy Nolan's cold sea-vibe colours but felt this warmth was worth it in the end.

Was heavily inspired by Ezio Anichini's lithograph work for this as well as greek pottery :).

Too late to get rid of him now...

King found his family tree and is already a troubled branch in it.

a kiss for my angel

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In short:

they didn't actually measure changes in learning; they measured theta waves which don't have a clear link to learning

They evaluated adults, not children

They didn't have participants do any encoding activities; they were mindlessly typing the same thing over and over

They didn't allow participants to actually type; they had them 'type' with one finger of their right hand, when there's plenty of evidence that using both hands while encoding information leads to increased brain activity.

They couldn't see what they were typing (no visual feedback), so any error-correction processes the brain would usually run were impaired

The handwriting part of the experiment was completely normal and representative of using handwriting to record information.

They didn't actually report the raw data or conduct any statistical analysis for the two parts of the experiment individually; only the differences between the two groups.

The incandescent WHAT?! that boiled out of my mouth had my spouse worried I was reading some world-ending news.

I mean, look, I love the idea of "writing by hand helps with learning" because it sounds good. There's a feel good to it I can appreciate, and as someone who was worked for hours upon hours to have beautiful penmanship, I was ready to accept this.

But I've also written two books by hand, and I've written several books via typing, and there's no difference cognitively speaking. If anything, typing is more efficient, easier to edit, and less stress on my fingers because I would often write pages and pages within a day until half my left hand was bruised.

This is just one of those posts I'm glad I went all the way through, because my initial knee-jerk reaction was "huh, neat." followed by "I don't know if this tracks..." and then ending with "Oooooooh, okay. That makes sense" when I got down to the last bit about how it was basically the writing version of the vaccines cause autism paper. (i.e. the author had an end result they wanted, and made everything fit that).

greater short horned lizard! Feeling lucky that theyre super common where I live. If youre ever lonely just reach into the dirt.