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

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Comment author: ChristianKl 11 March 2014 04:46:08PM *  7 points [-]

While recommending the article I wouldn't recommend the deck because of cards like:

Front: redundancy can be performed by repeating information using...
Back: various methods

To me that card looks likes trouble.

Comment author: SoerenMind 16 March 2014 08:06:44PM 0 points [-]

True. In the deck they make a point about that it's okay to have really simple cards since those will take a very small share of your time. But some are just useless. I keep a finger on the delete-button while doing my flash cards.

Comment author: ChristianKl 17 March 2014 04:30:48PM 1 point [-]

The problem with the card is not that it's simple.

The problem is that even if I know that there method A, method B and method C for redundancy, my automatic answer to the question isn't various methods.

I might think of method A, sometimes I might think of method C. Because there's no clear answer the card doesn't lend itself to SRS. If I haven't seen the card in a year I won't think that the answer to it is "various methods" but I will think of more specific methods.