📝 Speak/Write Every Day Challenge (Fall 2024) 🍂

[mitrac]

I’m cross posting this here as it’s great motivation - I knew the learning effects of output were massive but this is very motivating to take the trouble:

@crackstreetboys

I had a large folder that came from reading textbooks from university presses on memory research and compiling anything I found relevant to my own process. What I was really looking for was the generation effect. The generation effect is:

a phenomenon whereby information is better remembered if it is generated from one’s own mind rather than simply read.

A meta-analysis showing just how robust this is:

The generation effect: a meta-analytic review:

The size of the generation effect across the 86 studies was .40–a benefit of almost half a standard deviation of generation over reading.

For a sloppy analogy: half an SD is like gaining about 15lbs or 100 points on the SAT.

Thanks @crackstreetboys