Andrew Huberman· PhD
testing yourself is Far and Away the best tool for studying and learning not just for evaluating your knowledge but for actually studying and incorporating that knowledge into your neural circuits
The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
testing yourself is Far and Away the best tool for studying and learning not just for evaluating your knowledge but for actually studying and incorporating that knowledge into your neural circuits
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it turns out that testing is one of the best ways to build our knowledge to retain our knowledge and again to offset forgetting
consolidating that information in your neural circuits