so I've been using spaced repetition for ~1.5 y. now in my CS degree and life in general. it's a great solution for lots of problems: no relearning what I understood in class two weeks ago; a cheap way to incrementally refine my understanding over time on topics I haven't worked on directly recently (which is most of them); the rate of forgetting is slowed down, etc. but to use spaced repetition this way requires learning how to do so, it's not like with language where you can download Anki and a premade deck and you're good to go. there are also practical...
a really nice thing with spaced repetition is that you haven't replaced how your memory functions, just augmented it a bit. but it's still fundamentally your same brain, one with the ability to ask questions like "am I zooming too much/not considering all options?" or "is what's salient to me actually what's happening?" doing spaced repetition doesn't have any bearing here unless it gives you a false sense of confidence in what you know or doing it crowds out developing other skills.
I'd expect H3 to be true, ceteris paribus, but would also expect that hav... (read more)