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This just arrived from a listserv populated by group facilitators. I
thought it relevant to the discussion on class participation. DD

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To: GRP-FACL@CNSIBM.ALBANY.EDU
Subject: Tool Kit

I found the information about remembering. The percentages are:

We remember:
10% by reading
20% by hearing
30% by seeing
50% by seeing and hearing
70% by saying
90% by saying and doing

We learn:
11% by listening
83% by seeing and doing.

These percentages should help understand why flip charts and other
visual media, along with active summarizing, are important for the group
to understand and remember what happens in a workshop.

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______________________
Great Optimism,

Dutch Driver
Dept. of Communication
McMurry University
Abilene, TX
ddriver@cs1.mcm.edu

Alright Dutch,

This should make you laugh knowing how
allergic I am to scholarly <ahem> stuff
but I have heard the below over and over
again and nobody seems to know where it
came from. Any ideas? Mabbe someone
from the group facilitators list knows?
Actually being serious here <blink, blink>

Anyone else out there know?

> I found the information about remembering. The percentages are:

> We remember:
> 10% by reading
> 20% by hearing
> 30% by seeing
> 50% by seeing and hearing
> 70% by saying
> 90% by saying and doing

> We learn:
> 11% by listening
> 83% by seeing and doing.

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Best Regards,

Pat Gantt pagantt@worldnet.att.net Pat@HomeMail.com
The University of Tennessee M.S. Human Resource Development
Electronic Performance Instructor Information Source Locator (ISL)

Where is the empirical data to support these assertions. Different
people engae in cognition differently and retain information based on a
number of factors.

I am not trying to be overly critical. I just see these kinds of
percentages tossed around a lot. However, never with supporting data or
references.

"We do not see the world as it is, We see the world as we are" -Talmud

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>From: Dutch Driver[SMTP:ddriver@CS1.MCM.EDU]
>Sent: Saturday, February 15, 1997 1:37 PM
>To: MG-ED-DV@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
>Subject: Ways of Knowing
>
>This just arrived from a listserv populated by group facilitators. I
>thought it relevant to the discussion on class participation. DD
>
>BEGIN
>To: GRP-FACL@CNSIBM.ALBANY.EDU
>Subject: Tool Kit
>
>I found the information about remembering. The percentages are:
>
>We remember:
>10% by reading
>20% by hearing
>30% by seeing
>50% by seeing and hearing
>70% by saying
>90% by saying and doing
>
>We learn:
>11% by listening
>83% by seeing and doing.
>
>These percentages should help understand why flip charts and other
>visual media, along with active summarizing, are important for the group
>to understand and remember what happens in a workshop.
>
>END
>______________________
>Great Optimism,
>
>Dutch Driver
>Dept. of Communication
>McMurry University
>Abilene, TX
>ddriver@cs1.mcm.edu
>

On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Davis, Miles wrote:

> Where is the empirical data to support these assertions. Different
> people engae in cognition differently and retain information based on a
> number of factors.
>
> I am not trying to be overly critical. I just see these kinds of
> percentages tossed around a lot. However, never with supporting data or
> references.

Miles' question is one of high significance. However, I do think that the
modes of knowing and the associated percentages presented in the original
post do cover each of the major sensory imputs with the exception of
gustatory (taste) and olfactory (smell).

I offer apologies because I do not have the empirical data to support the
assertions--though I note that none was offered against the assertions
either.

______________________
Great Optimism,

Dutch Driver
Dept. of Communication
McMurry University
Abilene, TX
ddriver@cs1.mcm.edu