{"id":13838,"date":"2022-01-17T16:33:28","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T00:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/?p=13838"},"modified":"2022-01-24T03:40:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T11:40:54","slug":"faster-listening-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/17\/faster-listening-works\/","title":{"rendered":"New Research Shows I Was Right About Watching Lectures Faster"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new paper argues that watching video lectures at 2x the speed has minimal costs to comprehension. From the abstract<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“We presented participants with lecture videos at different speeds and tested immediate and delayed (1 week) comprehension. Results revealed minimal costs incurred by increasing video speed from 1x to 1.5x, or 2x speed, but performance declined beyond 2x speed. … increasing the speed of videos (up to 2x) may be an efficient strategy, especially if students use the time saved for additional studying or rewatching the videos…”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When I was doing the MIT Challenge<\/a>, people often scoffed at my strategy of watching lectures at 2x (or even 3x speed). This enabled me to watch all the lectures for a full-semester class in as little as two days. Yet, I frequently heard from onlookers that this would make comprehension impossible. <\/p>\n

However, now that podcasts are popular, it’s become common knowledge that you can listen at an accelerated pace without suffering significant comprehension losses. Still, it was nice to see research addressing this question with academic materials.<\/p>\n

Speculations on Why This Strategy Works<\/h2>\n
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