Pablo_Stafforini comments on Anki decks by LW users - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Pablo_Stafforini 02 April 2013 11:37:12PM *  2 points [-]

Still, if you are trying to learn material from a field that requires a general framework for understanding, then I'd advise you not to learn directly from an Anki deck, but to first study the original source from which the deck was created. Perhaps you may want to try the List of Cognitive Biases and Fallacies deck, which many people (myself included) have had good experiences with, to determine if your "atrocious experience" was the result of bad luck or bad choice of decks on your part, or if it instead reflects something else about how you are using Anki.

Comment author: Ratcourse 03 April 2013 05:28:41AM 0 points [-]

I did try it once. It was less bad than german but still bad: I memorized, but only after actually reading up on them I knew what I meant - leading me to think that I ended up not saving time in the long run, for if I had written them myself my memorization would probably be better.

I will try it again. For science.