The Science behind Smart.fm
via smart.fm
Some interesting science about the way we learn and retain information via this self-promoting clip from http://smart.fm, an online learning center.
Intuitively, it makes sense - "practice makes perfect" - but I have to wonder further: is intelligence an act of persistence (continually testing and re-activating 'latent memories'), or rather representative of a more shallow decline in the "forgetting curve" of Ebbinghaus' design? Alternatively, are intelligence and memory even related at all? If Einstein forgot the theory of relativity the following day, would it (or he) be any less intelligent?
