the Daily Whale - 6 September 1991

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Two psychologists wrote, in a serious scientific paper, “The superior performance of expert subjects in tasks of memory and perception is not the result of superior intelligence or capacity except to the extent that intelligence and capacity are defined in terms of the sophistication and efficiency of the cognitive structures that the person can and will utilize in any given situation.”

This is an example of expert gibberish. You have to have sophisticated and efficient cognitive structures to utilize it.

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