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"Improving Short-term Memory with Chunking" exercise needs a different (analogue) list of words #1320

Open anenadic opened 2 years ago

anenadic commented 2 years ago

In episode 05-memory, the "Improving Short-term Memory with Chunking" exercise needs a different (analogue) list of words from the previous exercise ("Test Your Working Memory"). The on-line version will generate another list anyway but the analogue list should be different in order to objectively measure improvement when using chunking (as people have already seen the analogue list in the first exercise the improvement might simply be due to remembering some of them).

I would also move the lovely diagram used to explain chunking above the second "Improving Short-term Memory with Chunking" exercise.

Happy to do a PR to fix this if others agree.

ndporter commented 1 year ago

This is a great observation and I agree it would be helpful and easy to add that.

This may be a different related issue/PR, but if it doesn't interfere with page accessibility, I might suggest changing the existing adaptations (analogue and accessibility) and the new one to title with foldouts rather than always display. But I don't know enough about how screen readers and such interact with the foldouts like we use for solutions.