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"Often the native English speakers are the ones who can't be sped up much. Luckily, at my school most of the professors aren't native speakers so a rate of 1.5

• osipov 18y ago
  >You don't get any more benefit from listening to a slower speaker at a faster playback speed over a faster speaker at an equivalently less fast playback speed That assumes that you are comparing the same course being taught by a faster speaker vs. a slower speaker. In reality, you don't have a choice. So if you are stuck with a slower speaker, you might as well speed up their lecture.
  • Hexstream 18y ago
    I don't think you understood what I mean. I mean that if you have someone who speaks at a rate of x and that gets unintelligible at a playback speed of y and another that speaks at a rate of 2x and gets unintelligible at a playback speed of y/2 then all other things being equal you have no advantage in listening to one instead of the other if you playback at the maximum intelligible speed.
• jumper 18y ago
  Strictly speaking, not true. If the lectures were all standardized at, say, 50 minutes each, then a professor that could be sped up more would take less time to get through each lecture than one who could not be sped up much at all. It's kind of like how you can read a page with lots of blank space much faster. Of course, it all gets muddled in the question of how much info per lecture\minute is actually best for learning, but if your goal is to get through them quickly then a speedable professor is best.