On Friday 15 May 2009 04:44:42 pm Gwern Branwen wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 4:07 AM, Peter Bienstman
>
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > If you make a new card, its starting easiness is the average easiness of
> > all the cards in the database. It would be a nice experiment to try that
> > out on your deck, and see what easiness comes out.
>
> I'm curious: what's the reason for it being the the average easiness?
>
> Thinking about it, I'm guessing the reason is to try to adapt to the
> user: a user who inputs lots of 'bad'/hard questions will have a deck
> with a low average easiness, and so one should expect any future cards
> to also be bad/hard, and so it's more efficient to set the beginning
> easiness down low; while a user who inputs lots of bite-size 'easy'
> cards will be quickly pushing cards up in easiness, increasing the
> average, and thus one should expect more easy cards and so default to
> higher easinesses.

You seem to have a talent for answering your own questions :-)

Peter

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