More Bogus Percentages. This time on Wikipedia.

Myths and Worse

In what has become an eternal vigil against the myth that "People remember 10% of what they…" I just hit the jackpot with the help of Jay Banks who just sent me an email.

The Wikipedia entry for Edgar Dale had two incorrect references to the bogus numbers that I talk about so often (see my blog category Myths and Worse). I fixed it today, I hope for good.

Here’s what it looked like:

And here’s what it looked like in Wikipedia:

For those who are shocked that information on the internet might be wrong—or that Wikipedia might be wrong—see my previous entries about Wikipedia (1st Most-Recent).

11 November 2007

Hello, and Welcome to My Blog!

= Will Thalheimer

I’ve been blogging since 2005.

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To empower workplace learning-and-performance professionals to get the most from learning.

To help organizations build strategic learning and performance practices.

To bring research-inspired wisdom to the workplace learning field through my writing, speaking, workshops, evaluations, learning audits, and consulting.

The business case is clear. By utilizing the learning and performance sciences, we create more effect learning interventions, we waste less time and money on ineffective practices and learning myths, we better help our learners, and we better support our organizations.

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