Learning From Mistakes Only Works After Age 12, Study Suggests

ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2008) — Eight-year-old children have a radically different learning strategy from twelve-year-olds and adults. Eight-year-olds learn primarily from positive feedback ('Well done!'), whereas negative feedback ('Got it wrong this time') scarcely causes any alarm bells to ring. Twelve-year-olds are better able to process negative feedback, and use it to learn from their mistakes. Adults do the same, but more efficiently.

According to this study, there's a radical shift in how a child learns between the ages of 8 and 12. For game developers, this makes it harder to accurately position games for the "6 to 14" market, since there are two distinct types of thought there.

Pretty interesting.

Best Comic

I'm still stuck in short post land. The best comic for me this week was The Immortal Iron Fist: Orson Randall and the Death Queen of California. Noir superhero martial art action. Very cool. Otherwise, the secret invasion goes on, Blue Beetle was kinda filler, and Ambush Bug was Ambush Bug.