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Document Information

Type: Publication excerpt / evidence document (house oversight committee)
File Size: 1.33 MB
Summary

This document is page 37 of a larger submission to the House Oversight Committee (Bates stamp 015727). It appears to be an excerpt from a book or report discussing learning theories, specifically the 'One Laptop per Child' initiative and the '10,000 Hour Club' theory of skill acquisition. While Jeffrey Epstein is not named on this specific page, the document is likely part of the investigation into the MIT Media Lab, given that One Laptop per Child was founded by Nicholas Negroponte, a key figure in the MIT/Epstein funding controversy.

People (4)

Name Role Context
Anders Ericsson Professor of Psychology
Conducted research at Florida State University on musicians and practice hours.
Malcolm Gladwell Author
Popularized Ericsson's research in the book 'Outliers'.
Daniel Coyle Author
Discussed the research in 'The Talent Code'.
Dan McLaughlin Golfer / Subject
Pictured in the document, likely as an example of the 10,000 hour rule.

Organizations (3)

Name Type Context
One Laptop per Child
Subject of the first section of the text; an initiative associated with MIT Media Lab.
Florida State University
Employer of Professor Anders Ericsson.
House Oversight Committee
Implied by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015727'.

Timeline (1 events)

Early 1990s
Anders Ericsson studied musicians regarding practice hours.
Florida State University

Locations (1)

Location Context
Location of Anders Ericsson's research.

Relationships (1)

Malcolm Gladwell Author/Researcher Anders Ericsson
His [Ericsson's] research was popularized by Malcolm Gladwell

Key Quotes (2)

"adults – the adults have never even seen a computer before. Instead, they must rely entirely on their innate learning ability."
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"The idea is that humans need around ten thousand hours of practice to become proficient at a skill."
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Full Extracted Text

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Mind over Computer 37
[Image of children sitting outside a rural dwelling with a laptop]
One Laptop per Child
adults – the adults have never even seen a computer before. Instead, they must rely entirely on their innate learning ability. At this point, the experiment has only just started; I will put details on my website as the experiment progresses.
The 10,000 Hour Club
Learning by experience takes humans quite a bit of time. Anders Ericsson, Professor of Psychology at Florida State University, studied musicians in the early 1990s and found they had accumulated a huge number of practice hours by the time they became experts. His research was popularized by Malcolm Gladwell, in the book Outliers, and by Daniel Coyle in The Talent Code. The idea is that humans need around ten thousand hours of practice to become proficient at a skill. The more skilled players seem to have simply accumulated even more
[Image of a man swinging a golf club]
Dan McLaughlin
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