Comments on: Do We Really Read Non-fiction to Learn? https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2011/07/do-we-really-read-non-fiction-to-learn/ Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:46:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: B https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2011/07/do-we-really-read-non-fiction-to-learn/#comment-5 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 21:46:16 +0000 http://www.spencergreenberg.com/?p=23#comment-5 Regardless of how much smarter reading anything makes us, fiction is more likely to make us dumber.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/k9/the_logical_fallacy_of_generalization_from/

Non-fiction is also likely to make us dumber, making learning a poor reason to read the way people do, which is as you say.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoEEDKwzNBw

http://lesswrong.com/lw/14q/why_youre_stuck_in_a_narrative/

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