Suppose a user can’t remember the answer to the question: “Who was the second President of the United States?” Perhaps they think it’s Thomas Jefferson, and are surprised to learn it’s John Adams. In a typical spaced-repetition memory system this would be dealt with by decreasing the time interval until the question is reviewed again. But it may be more effective to follow up with questions designed to help the user understand some of the surrounding context. E.g.: “Who was George Washington’s Vice President?” (A: “John Adams”). Indeed, there could be a whole series of followup questions, all designed to help better encode the answer to the initial question in memory.

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leeches #error #spaced-repetition

Should maybe try this for #language-acquisition or #project-karten ; instead of the three-step capital memorization, have a set of follow-up questions, and have them...idk, show up semi-immediately, like
1. Capital of Bulgaria is ＿ (X)
2. Coolest building in Sofia is ＿ (whatever)
3. Sofia was invaded by ＿ in whenever (whatever)
4. Capital of Bulgaria is ＿ (we also don't care, we move on anyway after this)

Biggest dislike w/ this: Background information is also cool for stuff I do remember; and conversely knowing nothing about capitals except their name is kind of fucking useless