On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 10:40:47PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote: > "Diversity" in this context would involve more dimensions than the > usual list of differences that nondiscrimination law covers, or might > cover. For instance, it might include profession, preferred learning > style, educational background, personality, and other ways in which > people's thinking can vary.
There is no evidence that presenting information via a person's preferred learning style helps the person to learn better. >From https://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/pspi/PSPI_9_3.pdf > Our review of the literature disclosed ample evidence that children > and adults will, if asked, express preferences about how they prefer > information to be presented to them. There is also plentiful evidence > arguing that people differ in the degree to which they have some fairly > specific aptitudes for different kinds of thinking and for processing > different types of information. However, we found virtually no evidence > for the interaction pattern mentioned above, which was judged to be a > precondition for validating the educational applications of learning > styles. Although the literature on learning styles is enormous, very > few studies have even used an experimental methodology capable of > testing the validity of learning styles applied to education. Moreover, > of those that did use an appropriate method, several found results > that flatly contradict the popular meshing hypothesis.