146b. Lessons from EdTech - The 90% Rule
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The Influence of the Ebbinghaus Rememberting Curve on Retrieval Strength
The Ebbinghaus forgetting curve is still very influential and it was a really amazing pioneering piece of work at the end of the 19th century this guy Herman Ebbinghaus but space repetition which is to a large extent based on the ideas of the forgetting curve. The more you forgotten then the more powerful the recall is in how much it affects your forward slopes he wasn't connecting this all together into one big picture idea so we'll leave that assumption by the wayside. He didn't actually involve the specification for space repetition he just said I think forgetting works this I've formula for how forgetting works um now because he was missing the desirable difficulty slope, right?
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