Studies that examine "the forgetting curve" have found that within a single hour of instruction, most trainees will have forgotten about 50% of what was presented. This Psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus ...

As we can see in diagram 1, the forgetting curve is relatively straightforward: Without reinforcement, the average human will forget roughly half of what they’ve learned within three weeks, and ...

The curve is a simple graphic demonstrating how information is lost over time, but it proved that time-related forgetting is real (and has been reaffirmed by further study since).

Psychologists say there’s a “curve of forgetting” that begins the second you learn something, and if there are more than seven components, the problem worsens. Phone numbers, you see, are ...

Research shows we tend to forget most of what we learn or experience within 24 hours of encountering it. In fact, almost 50% of the knowledge we take in vaporizes within the first 20 minutes of ...