A learning strategy called Suggestive Accelerative Learning and Teaching Techniques has suggested that people using this method can learn anywhere from 25 to several hundred times their normal learning speeds. When this set of techniques is subjected to scientific scrutiny, however, such results are not achieved. Which critical-thinking concept should this bring to mind?
A)Occam's Razor
B)Replicability
C)Extraordinary claims
D)Correlation versus causation

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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. The claim that people can learn hundreds of times faster than normal is extraordinary, and without scientific evidence to support it, it should be viewed skeptically.

A Learning Strategy Called Suggestive Accelerative Learning and Teaching Techniques