I believe that Alan has used examples like "90%" before that one can read to gain additional insight to his view. A quick search will provide some resources. Here is one I found:
http://secretgeek.net/camel_kay.asp Hopefully that helps shed some light. Zachary C. Clifton On Nov 2, 2010, at 5:31 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka wrote: > interesting... What about nature / nurture? > > are we talking about 90% of those who actually "can", or 90% of all? > > in any case, we hit very different individual learning slopes... > > To follow up with the kind of example you use, today's Wall Street Journal > has an article on how even highly educated people in Holland don't want to > wear helmets when riding bikes. So, they are "fluent" in bicycle riding but > somehow are not reasonable about it. The skill is there, but a concept on > how your behavior hurts others (if you get injured, someone else has to share > in paying for it) is clearly missing - ethics... > > anyway, famously, fluent in /what/? > > On 11/02/2010 06:21 PM, Jecel Assumpcao Jr. wrote: >> Yamandu Ploskonka wrote: >> >>> thank you, yep, you right. >>> >>> On 11/02/2010 04:40 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Yamandu Ploskonka<[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> request to understand better what Alan meant by 90% fluency... >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Fluency in 90% of the population, not "90% fluency". >>>> >>>> You could want to ask what definition of 'fluency' is being used and >>>> whether there is a reasonable test for that. >>>> >> Here is my own definition: you are fluent when mechanism doesn't fight >> higher level goals for your attention. >> >> When riding a bicycle, for example, if the only thing in your mind is >> that you want to go to the end of this block and turn left then you are >> a fluent rider. If, in addition to that, you are also worried about >> whether to turn the handle bar left or right in order not to fall, or >> perhaps lean over a bit instead and whether you might be pedalling too >> slowly then you are not fluent. >> >> The problem with a lack of fluency is obvious when, even though you are >> pleased with yourself for not having fallen, you suddenly realize that >> you have already passed the street where you wanted to turn left. In the >> same way, people who are not a fluent readers will find themselves very >> tired after two pages and have no idea of what the text said. >> >> -- Jecel >> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> [email protected] >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> >> > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
