Comment by hiatus
1 day ago
I would expect the flashcards produced under this regime to be utterly useless, like a flashcard with "A" and the answer is "B", or simple math problems. In other words, Goodhart's law.
1 day ago
I would expect the flashcards produced under this regime to be utterly useless, like a flashcard with "A" and the answer is "B", or simple math problems. In other words, Goodhart's law.
This is a very big problem. Virtually all the results from research here comes from some form of simple word recall. Direct recall occupies some part of real world tasks, but IRL if you're stopped by doing something it's people not because you can't remember it (and you could look it up if you forgot).
It's just logical that memorization is useful for broad areas like vocabulary and get progressively worse the more depth is involved, e.g. vocabulary>grammar>maths. The first one doesn't require generalization, the last one most certainly does. Even though I find that SRS leads to good generalization if it is used for relatively shallow conceptual knowledge.