The Ebbinghaus Effect and the Implications of Net Learning for the Performance of Production Systems, with Some Experimental Results

Voxi Heinrich S Amavilah ()

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Abstract: This abstract will be reformatted upon A simple Ebbinghaus model suggests that the policy implications of gross learning for the performance of production systems can be misleading. The rates of net learning tend to be transitory such that knowledge accumulation and diffusion processes thereof take longer to bear fruit than conventional learning models would indicate. Consequently, continuous retooling and retraining of production systems are necessary conditions for offsetting the effects of forgetting on gross learning.

Keywords: Ebbinghaus effect; gross and net learning; forgetting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2003-07-15
Note: Type of Document - Word; prepared on IBM PC - PC; to print on HP/PostScript; pages: 16 ; figures: request from author. I never published this paper and now I would like to share it with wider readership.
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