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Badass: Making Users Awesome
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Badass: Making Users Awesome

by Kathy Sierra
January 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
294 pages
7h 11m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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The Challenge What Experts Do
Science of Badass Building Skills Perceptual Exposure
The results were astonishing
Within two hours, non-pilots were faster at accurately
interpreting the cockpit instruments than seasoned pilots with
an average of more than 1,000 hours ight experience.
Think about that.
These weren’t novice pilots, these were non-pilots with no
prior knowledge or experience with ight, aeronautics, and
instruments. Yet within just two hours they were performing a
crucial skill better than experienced pilots.
Of course this didn’t mean they could y a plane, but if they
were to start ight training, they’d have a dramatic head start on
a crucial skill. With instrument perception at such a high level,
they could focus their effort learning and practicing other things.
The perceptual training these non-pilots experienced
compressed what typically takes more than a thousand hours,
into just 120 minutes!
The biggest surprise of all? The non-pilots received less
than ve minutes of actual instruction. Just a quick
orientation on the instruments. The actual “training” was
another variation of chick-sexing: repeated exposure with
feedback. The perceptual training consisted of two sessions,
each lasting under an hour. Each of the two sessions included
216 trials, divided into 9 blocks of 24 trials per block. Even
more remarkable, the feedback was only given at the ...
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