[JimDabell]

> Cognitive load theory is unfalsifiable and wrong about many things

Surely these two claims are mutually exclusive?

[marcosdumay]

The way I read it it means it's unfalsifiable as a general theory (that has free parameters), and wrong on many instantiations people use.

He follows that phrase with examples of more constrained theories.

[pasquinelli]

i feel silly for missing that when i read it. what else do i miss, i wonder.