Arran_Stirton comments on A brief summary of effective study methods

Arran_Stirton 27 Apr 2014 23:11 UTC
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Thanks for the pointers; I’ll make the changes you’ve proposed and move it to main at some point over the next day.

Look up one or two sequences or other posts for which this could be a follow-up.

I’m having trouble finding an appropriate post, did you have a particular one in mind?
- Gunnar_Zarncke 28 Apr 2014 10:59 UTC
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  The sequences indeed do not have much on study and learning (EY is autodidact). At least http://lesswrong.com/lw/3nn/scientific_selfhelp_the_state_of_our_knowledge/ has the following section
  
  Study methods
  
  Organize for clarity the information you want to learn, for example in an outline (Einstein & McDaniel 2004; Tigner 1999; McDaniel et al. 1996). Cramming doesn’t work (Wong 2006). Set up a schedule for studying (Allgood et al. 2000). Test yourself on the material (Karpicke & Roediger 2003; Roediger & Karpicke 2006a; Roediger & Karpicke 2006b; Agarwal et al. 2008; Butler & Roediger 2008), and do so repeatedly, with 24 hours or more between study sessions (Rohrer & Taylor 2006; Seabrook et al 2005; Cepeda et al. 2006; Rohrer et al. 2005; Karpicke & Roediger 2007). Basically: use Anki.
  
  To retain studied information more effectively, try acrostics (Hermann et al. 2002), the link method (Iaccino 1996; Worthen 1997); and the method of loci (Massen & Vaterrodt-Plunnecke 2006; Moe & De Beni 2004; Moe & De Beni 2005).
  
  And then I found the following posts outside teh sequences which are at least somewhat relevant:
  As study and learning is underrepresented in the Sequences, maybe a sequence for that could be started. Alas I don’t know the (social) protocol for doing so.