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Interesting. I know in the abstract they specifically say this cannot be generalized outside of mathematics, but I'd be curious to see if there's a similar phenomenon in other subjects.

Some of my classmates, in various subjects from grade school all the way through my master's degree, would struggle in certain topics and claim that they simply couldn't do it rather than keep trying until they succeeded. I wonder how many of those scenarios were self-fulfilling prophecies based in their lack of confidence in their ability to learn novel information.

Misread the whole damn abstract. They said that findings from other fields couldn't necessarily be extended to math/science due to the task-specificity, not that the findings couldn't be extended to other fields.

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