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Remembered / forgotten isn't the right pair #168

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andymatuschak opened this issue Dec 15, 2020 · 2 comments
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Remembered / forgotten isn't the right pair #168

andymatuschak opened this issue Dec 15, 2020 · 2 comments

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@andymatuschak
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For many prompts, the question isn't really about recall. "Answered" / "Couldn't answer" is closer, but awkward.

Adam Wern points out some other issues:

Answering ‘Forgotten’ feels wrong in the cases where I didn’t read properly (skimming/skipping) or didn’t understand what I read.
Also, answering ‘Remembered’ did feel off or unclear when I:

  • correctly guessed in fill-in-the-blanks (guessed vs retrieved)
  • didn’t understand the prompt correctly, but knew the answer
  • answered with different words that was similar in spirit
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Another idea came up in conversation with David Chapman: a replacement pair of words could convey the notion that you should use your judgment as to whether your answer was satisfactory. It doesn't have to be verbatim unless you think it does.

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I want to think about this as part of #192. Accommodating a wider variety of task types needs to be handled at the architecture layer.

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