On Friday, April 19, 2013 , Tom Cato Amundsen wrote:
>
> Hello mnemosyne-users.
> How high retention rate (as reported by mnemosyne statistics) do you get
> on average when reviewing cards? I tend to get around 80% and review
> between 100 and 150 cards a day. Most of my cards are used to learn
> languages.
>
> I would expect that spending more time reviewing 0 and 1-grade cards
> before grading them 2 or higher will improve the retention rate. But this
> also take time, and maybe it would be smarter using that time to read and
> speak the language I'm trying to learn.
>
> Do anyone have thoughts to share about this topic?
>
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Hi, Tom.
On Anki forum, I found this statement by Damien Elmes:
"A retention rate of 90% is optimal - much higher and you're doing a lot
of work for little gain."
My retention % { vocabulary, English } for 6 mo as follows:
1. ~35% of the columns are at 100% -- in-spite of the fact that I use
mostly 4 and 5 Buttons.
1. Had 4 outliers ( the score was less than 60%);
2. The median line is about 85%.
3. The columns swing from 60 to 100%; the graph is trendless, erratic.
I don't see much value in the Retention score - as it is designed; some
reasons are:
1. it is calculated on Daily bases.
2. It includes "Learn Ahead" cards ( increases the score; should not be
included ).
3. Stubborn cards (too many Lapses) also included.
I wish the Score was cumulative, on weekly and monthly bases.
I stopped looking at it - it is not reliable and not actionable.
I wish we had a Retention % charts for the following 7 intervals (
weekly and monthly ):
1.One day Interval .
2.Two, three, four, five, seven and 10 days Intervals.
These stats would be actionable; if the score was 90% or more for,
let's say, One day interval - that would be a signal to REDUCE or stop the
use of 1 day interval and use 2 day interval instead. The benefit is
obvious.
For now, I track the statistics { Retention for 1 2 3 4 5 7 10 days on
paper .
My hope is that someone like yourself will write a plugin ;-).
In the past, you did express an interest in it; my hope is high.
Vit
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