Along these lines, I have embraced the power of Cloze deletion. I have no problem with keeping all of the following cards in rotation:
The [...] is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher.
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a [...] in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher.
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which [...] suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher.
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons [...].
Even if I don’t actually care about memorizing the wording verbatim, breaking the information up this way forces me to learn the information in a sort of “anisotropic” fashion.
edit: Also, yes, at least two of these cards would be dead-easy, practically already known before I saw them even once, but seeing the information “too much” at the start can help push you over the initial hump.
It should be noted that how the cloze cards play out changes greatly depending on whether you allow different cards of the same note to show up on the same day. One version gives you that early overload effect, while the other gives a kind of extended familiarity effect where for months you’ll probably have at least one variation of that cloze come up every day or two. The more variations on a note, the longer this stretches out.
The problem in Anki, at least, is that this is a global deck setting (“Bury related reviews until the next day”) and not one you can customize for individual notes. Maybe I should start organizing decks by desired automaticity levels rather than by content.
Along these lines, I have embraced the power of Cloze deletion. I have no problem with keeping all of the following cards in rotation:
Even if I don’t actually care about memorizing the wording verbatim, breaking the information up this way forces me to learn the information in a sort of “anisotropic” fashion.
edit: Also, yes, at least two of these cards would be dead-easy, practically already known before I saw them even once, but seeing the information “too much” at the start can help push you over the initial hump.
It should be noted that how the cloze cards play out changes greatly depending on whether you allow different cards of the same note to show up on the same day. One version gives you that early overload effect, while the other gives a kind of extended familiarity effect where for months you’ll probably have at least one variation of that cloze come up every day or two. The more variations on a note, the longer this stretches out.
The problem in Anki, at least, is that this is a global deck setting (“Bury related reviews until the next day”) and not one you can customize for individual notes. Maybe I should start organizing decks by desired automaticity levels rather than by content.