I’ve been studying dynamics of reader memory with the mnemonic medium, running experiments on interventions, etc. A big challenge has been that I'm roughly trying to understand changes in a continuous value (depth of encoding) through discrete measurements (remembered / didn’t).
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I wonder if you'd get interesting mileage if you tracked what the reader recalled (their attempt): e.g., have them (optionally) input something, like 's workflow, which you might use to estimate, say, distance from answer over time, or elaboration of the details.
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Maybe, yes! Experiments in open-ended response at Khan Academy leave me with the intuition that we’d observe step-function-like behavior, but it’d certainly give you more signal.
Open-ended questions answered by zettelkasting w/ block-level tags à la Roam-collective (cc ) would be interesting to analyze
Which prompts get more questions or fleeting notes, rate of increase in structured/tagged answers by users over time/per prompt, and more
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