Comment by JackDanMeier
1 day ago
My understanding of what is important to feedback into the SRS is, was I able to retrieve the memory, and does the representation in my memory align with what I recalled.
As an example Term: "What is the capital of France and how many inhabitants does it have?" Correct definition: "Paris, which has 2 000 000 inhabitants."
For me there is a difference in not having the answer at all, which falls into "again". But what about if I'm able to retrieve that Paris is the capital, but I remember that the population is 1 500 000. This is where the gray zone begins
If you want to remember the population correctly, then that isn't a gray zone, that's an "again". That's entirely unambiguous to me, and if you let yourself slide on that, you're hurting yourself.
There's a lot more room for gray zones in language learning, where you might have the french card "doubler" and answer it as "to pass", and then see the actual answer is "1. to overtake, 2. to double", in which case you have to read your heart and decide whether missing the second definition was careless because it's so obvious, or if it merits an "again"
An AI also can't really know, btw, if your answer of "to pass" was "to pass (overtake)" (correct), or "to pass (like a note in class)" (incorrect).
That's not the best example, but there are a ton of ambiguous english words, and you only know in your own heart which meaning you meant.
That example should be two distinct cards, one for capital of France and one for population of Paris.