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<blockquote data-quote="ShinHakkaider" data-source="post: 9570254" data-attributes="member: 9213">&quot;Research on the forgetting curve shows that within 1 hour, learners forget an average of 50% of the information presented; within 24 hours, they forget an average of 70% of new information; and within a week, they forget up to 90% of what they learned.&quot; (<a href="https://www.indegene.com/what-we-think/reports/understanding-science-behind-learning-retention" target="_blank">https://www.indegene.com/what-we-think/reports/understanding-science-behind-learning-retention</a>)&quot;Information is retained in human memory stores in different ways, but it is primarily done so through active learning, repetition and recall.&quot; (Kahana, Michael Jacob. (2014). Foundations of human memory. Oxford University Press. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" target="_blank">ISBN</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0199387649" target="_blank">978-0199387649</a>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" target="_blank">OCLC</a> <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/884861998" target="_blank">884861998</a>)I guess my point is, reading things cover to cover, especially something that is meant to be a reference book isn't a great way to retain the information within for play. What is though is actually playing the game (active learning) again...and again...and again (repetition).I &quot;learned&quot; D&amp;D from the Moldvay Basic Set. But I didn't REALLY start learning the game until I started running the game myself. It's been the same with almost every TTRPG I've played. We learned during play, things we were not sure of we either looked up or made a decision on the spot.But alluding to the idea that if people dont read the reference book from cover to cover they're somehow doing it wrong or will miss things? That's just not how the average human being learns or retains what they've learned. It goes to what we prioritize: actual learning or the appearance of mastery/proficiency.&nbsp; We mostly retain by repetition and using what we learn on a regular basis.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ShinHakkaider, post: 9570254, member: 9213"] "Research on the forgetting curve shows that within 1 hour, learners forget an average of 50% of the information presented; within 24 hours, they forget an average of 70% of new information; and within a week, they forget up to 90% of what they learned." ([URL]https://www.indegene.com/what-we-think/reports/understanding-science-behind-learning-retention[/URL]) "Information is retained in human memory stores in different ways, but it is primarily done so through [B]active learning, repetition and recall[/B]." (Kahana, Michael Jacob. (2014). [I]Foundations of human memory[/I]. Oxford University Press. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)']ISBN[/URL] [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0199387649']978-0199387649[/URL]. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)']OCLC[/URL] [URL='https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/884861998']884861998[/URL]) I guess my point is, reading things cover to cover, especially something that is meant to be a reference book isn't a great way to retain the information within for play. What is though is actually playing the game (active learning) again...and again...and again (repetition). I "learned" D&D from the Moldvay Basic Set. But I didn't REALLY start learning the game until I started running the game myself. It's been the same with almost every TTRPG I've played. We learned during play, things we were not sure of we either looked up or made a decision on the spot. But alluding to the idea that if people dont read the reference book from cover to cover they're somehow doing it wrong or will miss things? That's just not how the average human being learns or retains what they've learned. It goes to what we prioritize: actual learning or the appearance of mastery/proficiency. We mostly retain by repetition and using what we learn on a regular basis. [/QUOTE]

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