Got my results in the post yesterday, and despite a predictably poor showing in Information Sources and Retrieval (god I hated that module) I did well enough in the dissertation to get a distinction overall. I am distinct! Or distinguished! Or something. So hurrah for me!And as a friend just suggested, I can now celebrate in wild abandon with folic acid and sparling mineral water... 10:34 . . .
News has reached me via my cruciverbalist sources of a recent research study that investigated 'whether frequent participation of crosswords had any effect on memory awareness (which is known as metacognition)'. Disappointingly, the results suggested that my crossword habit is not necessarily as beneficial to my degrading brane as I had assumed:It was also expected that participation in crosswords (especially cryptic crosswords, due to their need for inductive and deductive reasoning) would be positively linked to increased metacognitive abilities. The results did not support this hypothesis; there was no significant difference between participants who frequently or infrequently took part in any type of crosswords with regards to metacognition.- Nick Almond, Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of LeedsTags: crosswords 10:31 . . .
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