Repeat Yourself, a Lot

Re:Repeat Yourself, a Lot by kqr on Sunday October 31, 2021 @03:45PM (#29059779)

No. More repetition is always better. Proper spacing comes in only when you want to maximise retention with a fixed amount of repetition. (Source: Hoffman, Ward, Feltovich, et al. 2013. Recommended read if you're into that sort of stuff!)

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Re:Repeat Yourself, a Lot by acidbaseextract on Sunday October 31, 2021 @05:51PM (#29060788)

> Hoffman, Ward, Feltovich, et al. 2013

For those who wondered: Accelerated Expertise: Training for High Proficiency in a Complex World

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17399473-accelerated-exp...

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Re:Repeat Yourself, a Lot by dgarrett on Sunday October 31, 2021 @05:20PM (#29060562)

> (Source: Hoffman, Ward, Feltovich, et al. 2013. Recommended read if you're into that sort of stuff!)

I’m very curious. How did you come across this book? It seems very niche.

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Re:Repeat Yourself, a Lot by kqr on Monday November 01, 2021 @01:55AM (#29063418)

Edit: Oh, sorry, I misread your question entirely.

I don't remember, unfortunately. I get most of my book recommendations from authors of other books I like, and sometimes from HN. So probably one of those two!

This book in particular lies close to the naturalistic decision making (NDM) research, which I associate primarily with Gary Klein, which in my mental knowledge graph has an antagonistic connection to Kahneman and Tversky, so it might have been along that path. Or one of the millions of side paths that also connect those two. Or something else entirely.

Original comment based on misreading below.

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Depending on where the emphasis of your question lies, there are two questions in your comment.

1. Why do people publish research about such a niche subject? It seems that a lot of organisations have a self-interest in finding out how experts come to be such, and if there's a way to optimise that path.

2. How come this niche stuff is collected into a book rather than some other format? You wouldn't believe what kind of niche books there are out there!

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Re:Repeat Yourself, a Lot by dgarrett on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @03:00PM (#29085914)

Thanks! It’s always interesting when someone posts some new portal of knowledge into a niche that I didn’t realize existed. Especially when there’s already a nice book summing up the field. I hadn’t heard of NDM before, except maybe tangentially through reading Thinking Fast and Slow, so I’ll take a look.

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