In the New York Times on 7 September 2010, Benedict Carey wrote, Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits.
Alternate study environments, mix content, space study sessions, self-test.
-RichardH
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I have seen counter examples to the things that this guy says work better.
As Taleb says, it is one thing to present some raw data, it is quite another thing to say that you know what it means.
Saying that a certain psychology experiment produced certain numerical results is far from being able to say what these results mean or how applicable the interpretation is to more complex situations like real life.
My style that works for me is to look at all the different ways to think about a problem. That reinforces my understanding of the problem. I have tried to use that approach in tutoring others that need help. I have never found it to work. It has never helped a student that I have tried to tutor to give them another way to look at the problem when they can’t comprehend the first way. It only serves to confuse.
Of course my experience tutoring is like the psychological experiment. I see what the results have been, but I really don’t know what it all means.