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Anybody else here mostly use flashcards to study? Mostly just adding problems to them and doing them until the methods become second nature.

Anki has become a permanent staple on my phone.

What kind of weird study quirks do you have, /sci/? I know some of you fuckers probably study in bed or some shit

>> No.5172437

I usually work through problems while watching a movie. Most people say it's inefficient and suboptimal but it's never really been a problem for me, plus I can form some really strong visual/auditory associations.

>> No.5172445

Tons of coffee, but that's not really unusual.

>> No.5172455

>>5172422

Flashcards help a lot if you're not in physics or general chemistry. In more biological stuff (biochemistry major here) you need better recall abilities.

>> No.5172461

>>5172455
OP here. I'm actually a biochem major and I found that flashcards even help with quantitative problems, especially if you show how it's done on the backside.

>> No.5172479

Study in bed masterrace here.

Have fun getting out of the supine position to do linear algebra, plebs.

>> No.5172495

>>5172479

It's pretty accepted by psychologists that it is best to establish a working environment that is distinct from other environments. Example: The chairs in all of the president's meeting rooms (including the situation room and the meeting room on airforce one) have they same design and texture, as do the tables. This sets him unconsciously into "work mode" whenever he sits in the chairs.

>> No.5172504

>>5172495
That's interesting. I've always heard it's bad to study in your room due to your brain associating that with "relaxation time", hence why people study in libraries or build studies in their houses separate from bedrooms

>> No.5172549

I'm an econ major and I use flashcards. There are just SOOO many goddamn terms that I have trouble remembering which is which. Can't remember if technical rate of substitution was the derivative of the production function or the budget line. Not sure if the durbin-watson test was for heteroskedasticity or multicollinearity.

>> No.5173441

Don't use flashcards, because I have to understand how to get at solutions rather than just memorising some definitions. I only really see the appeal of them for medicine students, since their entire field of study is based on memorising shit.


>>5172549

>Durbin-Watson
>Multicollinearity

You do know that multicollinearity implies a non-full rank matrix of explanatory variables, right? That is, the determinant of that matrix is zero. Why the fuck would anyone devise a test to see if a determinant is zero if it's just part of the ordinary calculations?

>> No.5173607

>>5173441
>Why the fuck would anyone devise a test to see if a determinant is zero if it's just part of the ordinary calculations?
I don't know, I'm just saying that the test exists, that's all.

>> No.5173614

>>5173607

Yeah, Durbin-Watson exists. A test for multicollinearity doesn't, though; that would just give you an error of having a singular matrix when doing an estimation (generally when you have too many dummy variables)

Where are you studying, btw, Econ-bro?

>> No.5173616

>>5173614
>A test for multicollinearity doesn't,
Really? I could have sworn I was flipping through my books and found one. It starts getting less detectable when you have too many variables, and when you aren't even sure if they are all significant or not.
>Where are you studying, btw, Econ-bro?
Cornell