Over the past few days, I’ve read some interesting stuff online that I think could be of interest to you.

• Stuart Ritchie wrote an excellent post on Substack about Growth Mindset, much in line with what we wrote in our More Urban Myths about Learning and Education-book. But he also talks about the decline effect:

The decline effect is the idea that scientific findings get smaller over time. That is, initial findings tend to report effect sizes that then crumble away—sometimes to nothing—with subsequent research. You can see how this presages the replication crisis, which is all about later scientists being unable to find the same, or the same-sized, findings as earlier ones.

• Howard Gardner again explains his MI theory is not to be used as learning styles in TES. And he tries to explain that his theory is evidence-based, well, kind of. Also, remember what he wrote earlier on. This reply by Jeroen Jansen sums it up quite nicely:

• Talking about Jeroen, yesterday the journal he co-edits announced something big:

To understand why this is such a good thing, check the first chapter of our latest book for free, also check this paper I co-authored with David Daniel.