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hamnox comments on A vote against spaced repetition - Less Wrong Discussion

47 Post author: ancientcampus 10 March 2014 07:27PM

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Comment author: WingedViper 11 March 2014 10:18:20PM 1 point [-]

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?

Comment author: hamnox 13 March 2014 03:49:54AM 1 point [-]

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.