The English link didn’t seem particularly bad to me—its flaw was that it was deliberately too difficult for its subject matter, not that it was difficult in an absolute sense.
Josh, I don’t think I’d have had any trouble following that problem at age 7, which is when I was taught to solve systems of equations.
Self-anchoring. I adjusted because I knew other grade-schoolers weren’t as good at math, but, of course, I vastly underadjusted. I really had absolutely no concept of what it meant to not be good at math until a couple of years ago, and I probably still have no concept of it.
The English link didn’t seem particularly bad to me—its flaw was that it was deliberately too difficult for its subject matter, not that it was difficult in an absolute sense.
Josh, I don’t think I’d have had any trouble following that problem at age 7, which is when I was taught to solve systems of equations.
Self-anchoring. I adjusted because I knew other grade-schoolers weren’t as good at math, but, of course, I vastly underadjusted. I really had absolutely no concept of what it meant to not be good at math until a couple of years ago, and I probably still have no concept of it.