Universities actually cram very little information into students, and they do it painfully slowly. Bad pedagogy leaves only crude brute force study methods viable; profs have to limit the scope if they want to keep their students happy enough to not bash them on Rate My Professorhttps://twitter.com/TheAyenem/status/1116771886132813825 …
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Inside one's field or fields of expertise, SR is still occasionally useful, with little niggling things you keep having to look up. But for the most part I agree: one's natural interest and ways of encoding knowledge are powerful signals which do most of the trick.
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(Caveat: within one's field there are genuinely valuable ways of using SRS: http://cognitivemedium.com/srs-mathematics But that piece is principally about a very useful method of analysis; the use of SRS is subsidiary, & has some problems associated to opportunity cost, as discussed at the end.)
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I speculate most such articles fall into two buckets: (1) by people fascinated by the idea, for whom the opportunity cost doesn't much matter; & (2) by people using it as an important part of their work, who gradually learn to adjust their card-writing so it's on net worth it.
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