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Giant Brain Candy: Guess Wrong, Learn Better. Trying to answer a question before learning it, and getting it wrong, helped people learn the answer better than simply studying it for the same amount of time. Source: Learning from wrong guesses.
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  1. Kornell, N., Hays, M. J., & Bjork, R. A. (2009). Unsuccessful retrieval attempts enhance subsequent learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 35(4), 989–998.

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Guess Wrong, Learn Better

Trying to answer a question before learning it, and getting it wrong, helped people learn the answer better than simply studying it for the same amount of time.

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