I'm going to be coy here: that's a classic in magic, with many possible solutions!
I enjoyed (the first 2/3 of) Steven Pinker's The Sense of Style. It includes examples of where prescriptivism fails and succeeds.
http://www.drchilepepper.com/marie-sharps-hot-habanero-peppe... so tasty!
I don't have any studies, but check the wikipedia page for examples of Memory Championship winners using the method to, for example, memorize a deck of shuffled cards or a random sequence of digits. I bet Moonwalking…
There are techniques with better payoff and retention. Check the memory systems advocated by David Roth or Harry Lorayne, or the locus method (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci)
I second Card College. Absolutely the highest standard in card magic pedagogy.
I'm going to be coy here: that's a classic in magic, with many possible solutions!
I enjoyed (the first 2/3 of) Steven Pinker's The Sense of Style. It includes examples of where prescriptivism fails and succeeds.
http://www.drchilepepper.com/marie-sharps-hot-habanero-peppe... so tasty!
I don't have any studies, but check the wikipedia page for examples of Memory Championship winners using the method to, for example, memorize a deck of shuffled cards or a random sequence of digits. I bet Moonwalking…
There are techniques with better payoff and retention. Check the memory systems advocated by David Roth or Harry Lorayne, or the locus method (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci)
I second Card College. Absolutely the highest standard in card magic pedagogy.