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Re:The Rising Return to Non-Cognitive Skill [pdf] by alistproducer2 on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @02:51PM (#15021175)
Seconded. Non-cognitive has a pretty clear intuitive meaning so to then define term to mean almost the polar opposite doesn't make any sense to me.
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Re:The Rising Return to Non-Cognitive Skill [pdf] by wutbrodo on Tuesday August 15, 2017 @03:21PM (#15021445)
> Non-cognitive has a pretty clear intuitive meaning so to then define term to mean almost the polar opposite doesn't make any sense to me.

FWIW, I didn't interpret it as the polar opposite. I don't see that much of an issue with a model of skills as physical, cognitive, and emotional.

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