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Herman Rubin (hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu) wrote:
: In article <1ds3t1INNbtm@agate.berkeley.edu> lmk2@garnet.berkeley.edu () writes:
: >In article <spurrett.34.721489185@superbowl.und.ac.za> spurrett@superbowl.und.ac.za (David Spurrett) writes:
: >>I am interested to hear from anyone who knows of research into the 
: >>relationship (empirical, not necessarily causal) between the study of highly 
: >>abstract subjects like philosophy and mathematics, and the general academic 
: >>performance of the student/s in question.  I know of one study which found a 
: >>close link between study of phil or math, and dramatically above average 
: >>performance in all other areas.  This study did not have any control groups
: 
: I do not know of any such studies myself, but within mathematics, knowing
: the concepts helps in learning the details and special cases, but there is
: not too much evidence of the other direction.  However, I do not consider
: arithemtic or calculus or linear algebra as an abstract subject.
: -- 
: Herman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399
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