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Simple and fast flashcards for Emacs
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Why 3 points for complete ignorance? #25

Open daphniz opened 4 years ago

daphniz commented 4 years ago

Revealing a forgotten answer and then typing it, which gives 3 points, counts as a success, and pushes the next query farther and farther into the future. But it's not clear to me why being knowingly ignorant of something should be ``better'' than typing an incorrect answer, which gives 0 points. Does this belong to the Supermemo algorithm?

daphniz commented 4 years ago

Or, it may not count as a success -- the questions are reviewed -- but it seems that the intervals keep increasing.

daphniz commented 4 years ago

But the easy factor is decreased, so I suppose the intervals will decrease as well with time. But maybe say something about this in documentation.

abo-abo commented 4 years ago

In my experience, giving a score of 3 was fine. Since typing out the answer correctly does more for memorizing than simply revealing the answer and clicking "Next".

One of the design goals of pamparam is to make manual scoring unnecessary. So we have to give some score for typing out the answer correctly.

If you notice that the 3-points scored cards keep coming back and not becoming 5 points, please let me know. If you have any ideas for improvement, please share.

daphniz commented 4 years ago

I think this is fine too, but you are also required to type out answers you get wrong, so I'm not sure why that should give less points. The way it is now you get extra points for admitting ignorance and not trying. This may not be a practical problem, but it seems a bit random.