Hi, we're here from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

I'm Cody Gough.

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

Today you learn about common learning myths that even educators believe,

and the scientific reason why it feels like you always have more room for

dessert like pie. Happy pie day! Happy pie day! You'll also hear what happened when

we asked science writer Carl Zimmer a pretty big question. What is life?

But satisfy some curiosity.

We started yesterday's episode with a little bit of myth-busting, so why not do it again?

This time we'll talk about misconceptions around learning,

and according to one study, even educators believe these seven myths.

As reported by how stuff works, this study looked at results from a true or false survey

taken by more than 3,000 respondents.

There were three groups of participants who took the survey.

One was the general public, one was general educators, and one was people who had taken

college neuroscience courses. what the study called people with high neuroscience exposure.

And these myths are so pervasive, they were believed by 68% of the general public, 56% of educators, so yeah more than half, and 46% of the

neuroscience exposed group, which is pretty close to half too. Here are the seven myths.

First, individuals learn better when they receive information in their

preferred learning style. Sorry but research has shown those don't exist.

Second, children have learning styles that are dominated by a particular sense, like hearing or

seeing.

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