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Finally, a memory article that doesn't mention spaced repetition!
by dqpb 7y ago
Finally, a memory article that doesn't mention spaced repetition!
- sigstoat 7y agothey probably forgot about it.
- insickness 7y agoI see what you did there.
- scarcelycoher 7y agodid what?
- dorfsmay 7y agoAnd yet it is the one technique backed up by science!
- kazinator 7y agoIt doesn't specifically mention spaced repetition, but spaced repetition is a way of quizzing yourself. Spaced repetition is useful when the number of items to remember is very large; it's a way of optimizing the quizzing.
- dqpb 7y agoSpaced repitition is orthogonal to quizzing yourself.
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- kazinator 7y agoI'm not aware of a passive spaced repetition, which just presents items in increasing intervals without interrogating the subject's recall. For all intents and purposes, the normal SR that everyone uses in the form of software and that everyone refers to when they use the term SR is not orthogonal to quizzing; it's quiz-driven. I don't think that a passive strategy could be anywhere near effective as the actual SR algorithms in use, which incorporate feedback from quizzing in order to adjust the interval for each item, so that difficult items remain on short intervals while easy items recede farther into the future.
- dqpb 7y agoBut I'm sure you could imagine quizzing without spaced repetition
- elviejo 7y agoIn Anki when you quiz yourself with your cards, it's Self Testing. Anki just adds the separation in time, to make it even more efficient.