Personal achievements are pretty bad as evidence. But they can still be better than no evidence.
(And personal achievements aren’t all he asked for. I don’t think references to relevant research would have the same problem as personal achievements here.)
I agree that in some cases, it’s better than nothing to include personal achievements (as I did when I was discussing socializing in another thread). I just don’t really think that’s the case here. I’ll say the same thing that I said to estimator: if you genuinely think that my personal achievements would make a difference to you, I’ll be glad to tell you.
As for relevant research, well, (and I might be wrong on this) I thought one of the purposes of LW was to produce original content. Again, I might be misinterpreting things here. But if there was research that said, “Such-and-such approach to skill-learning works well”, why not just link to that instead of trying to paraphrase it?
Personal achievements are pretty bad as evidence. But they can still be better than no evidence.
(And personal achievements aren’t all he asked for. I don’t think references to relevant research would have the same problem as personal achievements here.)
I agree that in some cases, it’s better than nothing to include personal achievements (as I did when I was discussing socializing in another thread). I just don’t really think that’s the case here. I’ll say the same thing that I said to estimator: if you genuinely think that my personal achievements would make a difference to you, I’ll be glad to tell you.
As for relevant research, well, (and I might be wrong on this) I thought one of the purposes of LW was to produce original content. Again, I might be misinterpreting things here. But if there was research that said, “Such-and-such approach to skill-learning works well”, why not just link to that instead of trying to paraphrase it?