“赢在起跑线”的教育狂潮
3 把这个计划付诸实施:波尔加姐妹的生活在许多书籍和文章中都有记载。关于本章的细节,除了对苏珊·波尔加的采访外,最有用的来源包括:Y. Aviram (director), The Polgar Variant (Israel: Lama Films, 2014); S. Polgar with P. Truong, Breaking Through: How the Polgar Sisters Changed the Game of Chess (London: Everyman Chess, 2005); C. Flora, “The Grandmaster Experiment,” Psychology Today, July 2005, online ed.; P. Voosen, “Bringing Up Genius: Is Every Healthy Child a Potential Prodigy?,” Chronicle of Higher Education, November 8, 2015, online ed.; C. Forbes, The Polgar Sisters (New York: Henry Holt, 1992).
3 “遇到了一个有趣的人”:Polgar with Truong, Breaking Through.
4 “灰色的凡夫俗子”:People staff, “Nurtured to Be Geniuses, Hungary’s Polgar Sisters Put Winning Moves on Chess Masters,” People, May 4, 1987.
4 “国际象棋的结果非常客观”:L. Myers, “Trained to Be a Genius, Girl, 16, Wallops Chess Champ Spassky for $110,000,” Chicago Tribune, February 18, 1993.
5 “绝对组”:Aviram, The Polgar Variant.
6 癌症和艾滋病:W. Hartston, “A Man with a Talent for Creating Genius,” Independent, January 12, 1993.
8 “完全没有联系”:“Daniel Kahneman—Biographical,” Nobelprize .org, Nobel Media AB 2014. 2015年12月,我有幸在午餐时与卡尼曼讨论了他的生活和工作。更多细节可以参见他的书《思考,快与慢》Thinking, Fast and Slow (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011).
8 让他“印象深刻”:给卡尼曼留下深刻印象的其他相关的书包括:Paul E. Meehl, Clinical Versus Statistical Prediction (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1954). 米尔启发了大量研究,表明专家往往凭借经验获得信心,而不是技能。对其中一些工作的出色评论有:C. F. Camerer and E. J. Johnson, “The Process-Performance Paradox in Expert Judgment: How Can Experts Know So Much and Predict So Badly?,” in Toward a General Theory of Expertise, ed. K. A. Ericsson and Jacqui Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
8 2009年,卡尼曼和克莱恩:D. Kahneman and G. Klein, “Conditions for Intuitive Expertise: A Failure to Disagree,” American Psychologist 64, no. 6 (2009): 515—26.
8 “友好型”学习环境:Robin Hogarth’s fantastic book on learning environments is Educating Intuition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).
9 “还要可怕的病毒携带者”:L. Thomas, The Youngest Science (New York: Penguin, 1995), 22.
10 1997……终极之战:Kasparov was on the cover of the May 5, 1997, Newsweek, with the headline, “The Brain’s Last Stand.”
10 “现在你手机里的免费国际象棋应用程序”:卡斯帕罗夫和他的副助手米格·格林加德非常友好地回答了我的问题。更多信息来自卡斯帕罗夫2017年6月5日在乔治城大学的一次演讲,以及卡斯帕罗夫和格林加德的书《深度思考》Deep Thinking (New York: PublicAffairs, 2017).
10 “你就可以走得更远”:S. Polgar and P. Truong, Chess Tactics for Champions (New York: Random House Puzzles & Games, 2006), x.
11 “人类创造力的重要性比以往更加显著”;“我在战术计算上的优势”:Kasparov and Greengard, Deep Thinking.
11 自由式国际象棋:有关人机国际象棋合作关系的精彩讨论,请参见:T. Cowen, Average is Over (New York: Dutton, 2013).
12 他的队友尼尔森·埃尔南德斯:埃尔南德斯友好地进行了长时间的问答交流,向我解释了自由式国际象棋的细微差别,并为我提供了关于锦标赛的文件。他估计威廉姆斯在传统国际象棋中的Elo评分将在1800分左右。
12 2007年,国家地理频道:这个节目叫作《我的非凡大脑》(My Brilliant Brain)。
13 第一个实验发生在20世纪40年代:A. D. de Groot, Thought and Choice in Chess (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2008).
13 增加了一些难度:Chase and Simon’s chunking theory: W. G. Chase and H. A. Simon, “Perception in Chess,” Cognitive Psychology 4 (1973): 55—81.
15 如果不在十二岁之前开始严格的训练:F. Gobet and G. Campitelli, “The Role of Domain-Specific Practice, Handedness, and Starting Age in Chess,” Developmental Psychology 43 (2007): 159—72. 有关个人进步的不同速率,请参见: G. Campitelli and F. Gobet, “The Role of Practice in Chess: A Longitudinal Study,” Learning and Individual Differences 18, no. 4 (2007): 446—58.
15 特雷费特(Darold Treffert)对于“专才”的研究:特雷费特与我分享了他自己文献库中关于学者的视频。他的《孤岛天才》一书(London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2012)很好地记述了他的研究。
16 “我听到的东西太不现实了”:A. Ockelford, “Another Exceptional Musical Memory,” in Music and the Mind, ed. I. Deliège, and J. W. Davidson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). 其他关于无调音乐的文献包括:L. K. Miller, Musical Savants (Hove, East Sussex: Psychology Press, 1989); B. Hermelin et al., “Intelligence and Musical Improvisation,” Psychological Medicine 19 (1989): 447—57.
16 对艺术类的专家进行类似测试时——给他们快速看一些图片:N. O’Connor and B. Hermelin, “Visual and Graphic Abilities of the Idiot-Savant Artist,” Psychological Medicine 17 (1987): 79—90. (Treffert has helped replace the term “idiot-savant” with “savant syndrome.”) 还可参见:E. Winner, Gifted Children: Myths and Realities (New York: BasicBooks, 1996), ch. 5.
17 阿尔法元的程序员自豪地宣称:D. Silver et al., “Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm,” arXiv (2017): 1712.01815.
17 “在特别专业化的世界里”: 除了对加里·马库斯的采访外,我还参考了他2017年6月7日在日内瓦“AI for Good”全球峰会上演讲的视频,以及他的几篇论文和散文:“Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal,” arXiv: 1801.00631; “In Defense of Skepticism About Deep Learning,” Medium, January 14, 2018; “Innateness, AlphaZero, and Artificial Intelligence,” arXiv: 1801.05667.
18 IBM的人工智能代表“沃森”:要平衡地看待沃森在医疗保健领域面临的挑战——从一位批评人士称其为“笑话”,到其他人认为它与最初的炒作相去甚远,但它的存在确实有价值,请参见:D. H. Freedman, “A Reality Check for IBM’s AI Ambitions,” MIT Technology Review, June 27, 2017, online ed.
18 “在《危险边缘!》获胜和治愈所有癌症的区别”:这位肿瘤学家是维奈·普拉萨德医生(Dr. Vinay Prasad)。他在一次采访中对我说了这句话,并在推特上分享了这一点。
18 权威学术杂志《自然》(Nature)刊载了一篇报道:J. Ginsberg et al., “Detecting Influenza Epidemics Using Search Engine Query Data,” Nature 457 (2009): 1012—14.
18 病例数的两倍:D. Butler, “When Google Got Flu Wrong,” Nature 494 (2013): 155—56; D. Lazer et al., “The Parable of Google Flu: Traps in Big Data Analysis,” Science 343 (2014): 1203—5.
19 “他们工作的本质”:C. Argyris, “Teaching Smart People How to Learn,” Harvard Business Review, May–June 1991.
19 施瓦茨的论文副标题:B. Schwartz, “Reinforcement-Induced Behavioral Stereotypy: How Not to Teach People to Discover Rules,” Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 111, no. 1 (1982):23—59.
21 “变革者”:E. Winner, “Child Prodigies and Adult Genius: A Weak Link,” in The Wiley Handbook of Genius, ed. D. K. Simonton (Malden, MA: John Wiley & Sons, 2014).
21 会计师和桥牌选手:除了卡尼曼和克莱恩的“对抗性协作”论文和霍格斯的教育直觉之外,还有一个有价值的参考来源是:J. Shanteau, “Competence in Experts: The Role of Task Characteristics,” Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 53 (1992): 252—62.
21 “稳定的统计学规律”:Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow.
21 在一项关于桥牌的研究中:P. A. Frensch and R. J. Sternberg, “Expertise and Intelligent Thinking: When Is It Worse to Know Better?” in Advances in the Psychology of Human Intelligence, vol. 5, ed. R. J. Sternberg (New York: Psychology Press, 1989).
21 经验丰富的会计师;“认知壁垒”;“把一只脚踏出你的世界”:E. Dane, “Reconsidering the Trade-Off Between Expertise and Flexibility,” Academy of Management Review 35, no. 4 (2010): 579—603. 有关专家灵活性和顽固性的一般性讨论,请参见:P. J. Feltovich et al., “Issues of Expert Flexibility in Contexts Characterized by Complexity and Change,” in Expertise in Context, ed. P. J. Feltovich et al. (Cambridge, MA: AAAI Press/MIT Press, 1997); and F. Gobet, Understanding Expertise (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
21 诺贝尔奖获得者……至少……:R. Root-Bernstein et al., “Arts Foster Scientific Success: Avocations of Nobel, National Academy, Royal Society and Sigma Xi Members,” Journal of Psychology of Science and Technology 1, no. 2 (2008): 51—63; R. Root-Bernstein et al., “Correlations Between Avocations, Scientific Style, Work Habits, and Professional Impact of Scientists,” Creativity Research Journal 8, no. 2 (1995): 115—37.
21 “对于不了解这一点的人来说”:S. Ramón y Cajal, Precepts and Counsels on Scientific Investigation (Mountain View, CA: Pacific Press Publishing Association, 1951).
22 那些对自身领域缺乏创造性贡献的人:A. Rothenberg, A Flight from Wonder: An Investigation of Scientific Creativity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).
22 “而不会沉溺于一个狭隘的话题”:D. K. Simonton, “Creativity and Expertise: Creators Are Not Equivalent to Domain-Specific Experts!,” in The Science of Expertise, ed. D. Hambrick et al. (New York: Routledge, 2017 [Kindle ebook]).
22 “当我们在设计”:史蒂夫·乔布斯2005年在斯坦福大学的毕业演讲:https://news.stanford.edu/2005/06/14/jobs-061505.
22 “没有其他人同时对这两个领域都熟悉”:J. Horgan, “Claude Shannon: Tinkerer, Prankster, and Father of Information Theory,” IEEE Spectrum 29, no. 4 (1992): 72—75. For more depth on Shannon, see J. Soni and R. Goodman, A Mind at Play (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017).
23 “职业渠道”;“在八车道的高速公路上开车”:C. J. Connolly, “Transition Expertise: Cognitive Factors and Developmental Processes That Contribute to Repeated Successful Career Transitions Amongst Elite Athletes, Musicians and Business People” (PhD thesis, Brunel University, 2011).