The science of skill Is one lessona week enough? The forgetting curve In the 1880s, psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus mapped how quickly we lose new information when we don’t revisit it: memory drops steeply at first, then flattens out. His work was replicated with modern methods by Murre and Dros in 2015, and the pattern holds up remarkably well. Within a day, roughly two-thirds of newly learned material is gone. By day six, only about a quarter is left. 25% of what your child learns is roughly all that’s left six days later — if they don’t touch a racquet in ...read more
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