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

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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.

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  • V. Heinrich Amavilah, 2003. "The Ebbinghaus Effect and the Implications of Net Learning for the Performance of Production Systems, with Some Experimental Results," Experimental 0307002, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    Ebbinghaus effect; gross and net learning; forgetting;
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    JEL classification:

    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General

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