Reviews or Lessons first? / not waving but drowning

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@ainsley

For example I’m never sure if I should study new or often incorrect answers in between reviews or if that could mess up the algorithm by reminding me of a Kanji I would’ve otherwise forgotten in the break.

@sansarret

As for reviewing extra - indeed there pros and cons. There was a thread doing in depth analysis on the matter couple of months ago

I think both of you are looking for this: MegaZeroX searched the scientific literature on this topic. They found that studying between reviews improves retention. There is no harm to the SRS as long as you don’t do it immediately before 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…