Does extra studying of problem kanji mess with the SRS?

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@MegaZeroX has researched the scientific literature on this topic. They are found that extra studying improves retention over plain SRS. You only need to avoid doing it just before the reviews.

There is no such thing as cheating yourself in SRS

First: what is this thread about? Well, something I’ve seen regularly posted in the WK forums is that doing any reviews outside of the scheduled ones will actively harm your learning, which sounded strange to me. I spent much of today delving into research of the field, and the post below is my findings. There will be a tl;dr at the end of the post. Let me give a disclaimer. I don’t do research in this area, nor do I know anyone that does. This is primarily just what I got from reading two meta…