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Off the top of my head: John Carmack and Derek Sivers are Anki users. I've met a ton of brilliant people at Olympiads who use Anki, and you'll find heavy usage

Off the top of my head: John Carmack and Derek Sivers are Anki users. I've met a ton of brilliant people at Olympiads who use Anki, and you'll find heavy usage from people who rank #1 in highly competitive exams (JEE Advanced, Cambridge Medicine etc...). I graduated top of my class, and I attribute this to consistent Anki usage But, of course: there's a subset of truly incredible people who don't need it. I've met some people at 20+ languages, no Anki ---- Disclaimer: AnkiDroid maintainer. Did a bit of work on a new website today, so stats are top of mind.

exhilaration 2y ago
My understanding is that Anki is pretty much used by every single medical student, at least in the U.S. It's the perfect applications for retaining massive amounts of information just long enough to pass med school and board exams. Look at this: https://www.reddit.com/r/medicalschoolanki/ https://www.reddit.com/r/medicalschoolanki/ -- 166k followers.
- david_allison 2y ago
  We have a reasonable source for 70%[0]. There are a number of anti-Anki users (and to be honest, I don't blame them: there's 30k+ cards that they should learn in the 'meta' decks, and our onboarding is lacking). They've got an abusive workload. The longer I'm US med-adjacent, the more jaded I become. There's continuing score creep, and this is due to the bar being raised[1], in order to maintain a failure rate. I believe there's systematic academic misconduct due to the pressure to publish. The AVERAGE successfully matched neurosurgery resident has 37.4 research items (papers/presentations/abstracts)[2]. [0] https://www.cureus.com/articles/70371-an-analysis-of-anki-usage-and-strategy-of-first-year-medical-students-in-a-structure-and-function-course#!/ https://www.cureus.com/articles/70371-an-analysis-of-anki-us... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gKKAZ5aO8E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gKKAZ5aO8E [mean score in 2022-3 was 248. This was a 99th percentile score in 1993-4. Mean student in 1993-4 would no longer meet the passing score, exams are not getting easier] [2] https://medschoolinsiders.com/medical-student/how-many-publications-for-residency-by-specialty/ https://medschoolinsiders.com/medical-student/how-many-publi...

exhilaration 2y ago

My understanding is that Anki is pretty much used by every single medical student, at least in the U.S. It's the perfect applications for retaining massive amounts of information just long enough to pass med school and board exams. Look at this: https://www.reddit.com/r/medicalschoolanki/ https://www.reddit.com/r/medicalschoolanki/ -- 166k followers.

david_allison 2y ago
We have a reasonable source for 70%[0]. There are a number of anti-Anki users (and to be honest, I don't blame them: there's 30k+ cards that they should learn in the 'meta' decks, and our onboarding is lacking). They've got an abusive workload. The longer I'm US med-adjacent, the more jaded I become. There's continuing score creep, and this is due to the bar being raised[1], in order to maintain a failure rate. I believe there's systematic academic misconduct due to the pressure to publish. The AVERAGE successfully matched neurosurgery resident has 37.4 research items (papers/presentations/abstracts)[2]. [0] https://www.cureus.com/articles/70371-an-analysis-of-anki-usage-and-strategy-of-first-year-medical-students-in-a-structure-and-function-course#!/ https://www.cureus.com/articles/70371-an-analysis-of-anki-us... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gKKAZ5aO8E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gKKAZ5aO8E [mean score in 2022-3 was 248. This was a 99th percentile score in 1993-4. Mean student in 1993-4 would no longer meet the passing score, exams are not getting easier] [2] https://medschoolinsiders.com/medical-student/how-many-publications-for-residency-by-specialty/ https://medschoolinsiders.com/medical-student/how-many-publi...