'We remember 10% of what we hear, 20% of what we read, 50% of what we do' is a 100% BS!

another myth busted...

Hi Garry

Thanks for sharing this

Other links about this include:

http://rapidbi.com/management/dale-cone-of-experience-misleading-quotes/

http://www.willatworklearning.com/2006/05/people_remember.html

http://web.archive.org/web/20001210132300/http://www.3m.com/meetingnetwork/presentations/pmag_visualsstudy.html

http://www.indiana.edu/~molpage/Cone%20of%20Experience_text.pdf - good academic review

Its so easy for people in our "industry" to take a concept and demonstrate it as fact, When looking into this a couple of years ago I bought the original publication - a fascinating read, if dated!

Learning myths

Donald Taylor 'de-bunked' this myth right here on TrainingZone a couple of years ago!

You only remember 10% of what you read...

http://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/185067

It started a mini series of debunking, called Modern Myths of Learning, which included

You only use 10% of your brain:

http://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/186780

And the Creative Right Brain

http://www.trainingzone.co.uk/topic/strategy/modern-myths-learning-creative-right-brain

And, of course, there's Martin Shovel's feature and splendid animation on the Mehrabian myth:

http://www.trainingzone.co.uk/item/184720

Enjoy!