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• What It Means to Be Smart: What Gets Measured and What Does Not

  The word intelligence has three different things mixed into it. The general factor as a statistical regularity, CHC as the mainstream model of psychometrics, and the social usage we reach for when we size someone up in d

  2026-08-16 · 14 min read #mindset#intelligence#psychometrics#expertise#evidence

• What the Research Shows: Interpreter Training, Cognitive Ability, and the Deliberate Practice Debate

  A survey of the research on whether interpreter training actually changes working memory and executive function. Where a meta-analysis and a systematic review reached different conclusions, the difference between cross-s

  2026-08-16 · 16 min read #english#interpreting#research#evidence#deliberate-practice

• What an Ordinary Learner Can Actually Take from Interpreter Training

  Building on what the previous three posts confirmed, this sorts out what can be carried over from interpreter training to an ordinary learner and what cannot. Shadowing, chunking, deliberate delay and output under time p

  2026-08-16 · 14 min read #english#language-learning#shadowing#practice#evidence

• What Interpreters Actually Train: What Can Be Confirmed in Public Curricula and Techniques

  Of everything that circulates about interpreter training, this gathers only the part that can actually be checked. Why consecutive and simultaneous interpreting are different skills, what ear-voice span and chunking are,

  2026-08-16 · 16 min read #english#interpreting#language-learning#evidence#shadowing

• What People Good at Languages Have in Common, and How Much of It Is Verified

  Six claims repeated as the traits of polyglots, checked one at a time. Starting young, sensitivity to sound, tolerance of ambiguity, overwhelming volume of input, a willingness to be publicly bad at something, and memory

  2026-08-16 · 14 min read #english#language-learning#polyglot#evidence#critical-thinking

• What Studying Well and Playing Sport Well Share Is Narrower Than It Looks

  Is there really an ability that carries over between studying and sport, between coding and playing an instrument? The conclusion of the cognitive-training transfer literature runs against popular expectation. Near trans

  2026-08-16 · 13 min read #mindset#learning#expertise#transfer#evidence