It could be that people don’t use their rationality skills at their “bottlenecks”. You could improve many things but if they aren’t your bottlenecks the result would be negligible. I’ve seen people training to recognize their biases but not using this for strategic planning and just doing “the safe thing” everyone does.
MrAKaDeus
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I don’t want make any general statements. But in this particular case the spaced repetition algorithm is mentioned by the author. And there is pretty solid evidence that it works. Many studies show that it raises long-term retention.