clipped from vignettestraining.blogspot.com

"If he be a man engaged in any important inquiry, he must have a method, and he will be under a strong and constant temptation to make a metaphysics out of his method, that is, to suppose the universe ultimately of such a sort that his method must be appropriate and successful.

—E. A. Burtt, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science (1925)"

The article essentially questions the fallacy that many earnest scientists fall into thinking that their method defines their patients or the areas of their study.

In the adoption of tools and technologies in learning and training, many pundits fall victim to the same fallacy. Some examples are:

1. Learning Styles - that people can be categorized into some buckets on learning styles.

2. PLE - Personal Learning Environment, the new idea that people must now master their own learning as a consequence or as enabled by abundance of open learning technologies.