While the specific claims made by this article are true, they do not change the fact that most educated, especially self educated people have experienced situations where they have repeatedly gained much more knowledge much faster from one particular type of learning experience than they have from others, and that there is widely differing opinion on which type is best.

Now, while this obviously does not vindicate the claims of the people who assert that learning styles must be embodied in the neurology of the learner, it does show that something is going on, and it would be to the benefit of both learners and teachers to find out more about it.