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Actually, eyewitness testimony has been shown to be incredibly unreliable. People have been proven to miss huge, glaring things that most of us believe that we would see. For an excellent book on how prone the brain is to errors and how bad most of us are at witnessing things, check out The Invisible Gorilla. It talks about how heads of State and other famous, mostly level headed people have recalled things that didn't happen or seen things that weren't there.
This is not to say that eye witness testimony is utterly false, just that is isn't as 'bulletproof' as most of us believe.
No, it's because of path dependency and signalling. Research has repeatedly shown that claims of "learning how to learn" and learning transfer in general are bogus.
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Transfer of learning is an extremely popular and decidedly refuted theory. Learning calculus does not make you better at anything but calculus. Claims that calculus and other classes that don't teach job skills somehow teach you "how to learn" are wholly contradicted by the evidence. Unfortunately, it seems like learning about the scientific method back in science class doesn't transfer to thinking about education.