The 93% non-verbal communication myth

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away there was an academic called Albert Mehrabian, who - aside from lecturing at California's UCLA...

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The profligate lottery winner fallacy

There is a  fallacy about  lottery winners: a myth that "Lottery winners squander[...] their newly won money on wild spending sprees, g...

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Have you heard...?

When I am working with my students, I try to use only evidenced data, and to check that data carefully. So when a student suggested in a cla...

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An evaluation of Lewin's change model

Organisational change and innovation has been widely acknowledged to not necessarily be straight-forward; nor is it necessarily good. A lot ...

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Measuring training results

When we train, we must also measure the results of our training. If we have not measured, we have no idea whether what we have delivered is...

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An update on the Learning Styles Myth

We often have the theory of learning styles (LS) waved in front of us: the "VAK" construct of Barbe et al. (1979) was picked up by...

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Women apply when 100% qualified - busted

A student was telling me how in past roles they would start well, but become bored. While we all enjoy a fresh challenge and learning new th...

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The pyramid scheme that was Maslow

Source: Thompkins-Jones (24 July 2014) In 1943, a psychologist called Abraham Maslow presented a framework in a paper proposing that we ...

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The Myth of Digital Natives

Many of us drank the Kool-Aid on this one: the concept of digital natives. The idea behind the digital natives concept was that those bo...

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The IT myths we still believe

Reported by TechRepublic, a survey by HighSpeedInternet.com found that computer users in the USA hold onto some outdated ideas about techn...

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Conflating Education Myths

Who amongst us has not heard the magical "we remember 10% of what we read, 20% of what we watch", and so on, down to "90% o...

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Leadership & Education Myths

There are two myths that I keep running into, so I decided to do a quick post about them, not only to keep track of the meta-studies which...

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