Learning economics

[Catseye3]

@aqua-letifer said in Learning economics:

've found that one of the best ways to clarify and advance your understanding of a thing is to be tasked with teaching it to someone else. It works every single time, when both participants are actively engaged.

Einstein said, if you can't explain a thing to a six-year-old, that means you do not understand it yourself.

Or something like that.

[kluurs]

I taught basic statistics to undergrads. At the time, it helped me as much or more than them. I also learned a lot about people with phobic responses to math. They'd get so anxious they'd shut down their ability to learn. Some people needed a visual understanding of what was going on. Some liked a cookbook approach. Another if you said, it is "5:45 pm" or "quarter of six" - had no understanding that these were equivalent - and here they were a college undergrad!

[bachophile]

@kluurs actually it’s 17:45.

[Doctor Phibes]

A quarter of six is 1.5. It's a quarter to six.