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As spaced repetition and flashcards are a technique and tool respectively it is (to me) obvious that they are useful for certain kinds of circumstances. Flashcards really are useful only when you want to associate 2 things to each other (for example a word and its translation) and might not be the best way to build an organized knowledge of a subject. Because of that I wouldn't use them for that purpose in any case.
Thank you for pointing out an area where they fail, that was useful information.
A question to the community: Do you really believe as much in spaced repetition/Anki as the post suggests?
Excellent question; I'd like to know too.
That like saying that computer are only useful when you want to add 0's and 1's. There's Turing completion for computers. In a similar way you can break most knowledge down to atomic units. Often that means that you have to think about the knowledge in a more detailed way.
If I remember right something like 12% use it. On the other hand more than 12% did use it but don't anymore. On the other hand those people who speak about Anki, are the people who believe in it.
However while I do believe in it I think there's a huge room for improvement through things like automatic creation of Ven diagrams based cards.
I believe it's really effective when used effectively.
I also think it's really damned hard to use effectively. There's a lot of cards I have queued to fix or delete because I didn't formulate them well enough.
Dunno.
Love,
The Community.