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Originally Posted by Sam988  Follows a study done by NASA itself to see if the PR course really did yeld benefits to reading, because they wanted to implement it so their engineers, scientists, and the rest of the staff could be more effective.
Not surprisingly (to me), NASA came to the conclusion that the PR technique doesn't work. A person using PR actually takes more time to reading in order to comprehend as much as someone reading normally (we're not talking about skimming techniques here, which are the only useful thing i found in Paul Scheele's PR course). NASA Technical Reports Server |
I disagree. I think the reason why the NASA study came to that conclusion was because they're very conscious-minded people and have a difficult time "letting go" and trusting something that's not conscious. I do, too. That's why it's been almost a year since I've had the photoreading course and still only occasionally see the kinds of results that were promised versus not. On the other hand, I'm willing to keep trying to do this and have found out that letting go and relaxing is rich pd territory for me in many areas of my life, including my personal sense of satisfaction, my relationships, my work, my PD itself and my experiments with IM.
Of course, spending a year trying to make something work for you may not be the best use of your time, so I can respect you deciding on your position about PR.