Bill Goss
College of the Rockies
Box 8500
Cranbrook, BC, Canada
Take a look at this site. I thought I had seen an online article on the
myth by Barry Beyerstein, but did not find it here.
http://www.csicop.org/si/9903/ten-percent-myth.html
-Original Message-
From: Matthew W. Prull
The recently published book, Mind Myths, edited by sergio della sala has
what I consider to be the definitive chapter on this issue, by
Beyerstein--he cites several possible sources, none of which is definitive.
annette
(just don't have time to go over it right now :-(
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999,
Here is the second part of what I had written about the 10% myth. I'm
sorry for the length of these two posts but, at the time, I had become
very interested in figuring out the origins of this myth. Since then, I
have become more interested in the influence of popularizations of
psychological
Matthew Prull asked about the origins of the 10% myth. Gary Klatsky
mentioned the chapter by Beyerstein and the possible influence of
William James. Earlier this summer, before I had read the Beyerstein
chapter, I also had discovered the possible influence of James on the
10% myth (which, as you
