[HN Gopher] Learning in double time: The effect of lecture video...
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Learning in double time: The effect of lecture video speed on
comprehension
Author : ibobev
Score : 11 points
Date : 2022-09-12 19:51 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| anagram666 wrote:
| In other news: Watching a video at 3x can make you learn very
| little but it is three times fast!
| ars wrote:
| Does this surprise anyone?
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| You can read a lot faster than you can talk. Which also means you
| can comprehend a lot faster than people can talk to you.
|
| Or in other words speed up the video playback to match your
| typical reading speed.
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| Some people are very mumbly and hard to understand at higher
| speeds. But most of the time it works great. Bonus points if the
| video includes closed captions.
|
| I've had a number of teens tell me that they watch TV shows and
| movies at 1.25 or 1.5 speed. So it's not limited to educational
| content.
| eimrine wrote:
| I wish my video playing device has some hardware buttons for
| smoothly setting speed from 0.25x to 10x, Youtube can not play
| sound if the speed is more than 4x. Also I want some handy way of
| going few seconds ago and relisten that short interval with less
| speed. Sometimes only one word is misheard but returning to that
| moment might be a problem on some devices.
| gausswho wrote:
| I suspect you are referring to a device without a keyboard. I
| find my YouTube experience much better on a laptop for access
| to these shortcuts: https://www.mrfdev.com/youtube-keyboard-
| shortcuts
|
| To do what you're asking would be left arrow (back 5 seconds)
| and shift+comma (reduce playing speed).
|
| As a bonus you get extensions/add-ons that improve the whole
| experience.
|
| It's sad how (unsolvably?) lame YouTube is on a phone, once you
| get used to this.
| imranq wrote:
| Ive found that if i spend just a few minutes defining what i want
| to gain out of any content, i can learn at 100x the speed of just
| thoughtlessly consuming.
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| Sometimes even infinite times if I realize the content isn't
| worth consuming at all
| bzmrgonz wrote:
| I think the benefit comes from exercising(training) the brain to
| identify/translate/transmit sensory data (video/audio) faster.
| It's like having a conversation with an 80 yo grandma vs. talking
| to a fast witty talker. The brain needs to adjust to the word
| rate. I think this is one way to develop speed "on your feet" as
| the saying goes.
| faebi wrote:
| Or double your watch time by letting it run while you do mundane
| tasks like showering, cooking and cleaning.
| dang wrote:
| The submitted title ("Watching a video at 2x the speed can double
| your learning speed") was editorialized in a way that strongly
| affected the comments--it made the thread more shallow and
| predictable. That's one reason the site guidelines ask you not to
| do that.
|
| " _Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or
| linkbait; don 't editorialize._"
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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| Edit: it's worth pointing out that the submitted title at
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32815915 ("Marmots appear
| not to age while they are hibernating") was actually good and in
| keeping with the same guideline. In that case the original title
| was linkbait and therefore needed to be changed, and the
| submitted title appears to be an accurate and neutral
| representation of the article, not a cherry-picked detail as it
| was here.
| lofaszvanitt wrote:
| Don't speed up the video, cut the useless trash and stop wasting
| ppls time. A general 300 page book has around 270 pages of
| useless content.
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