Under the advanced settings for my deck there is a setting for prioritize with a slider from weak to strong.
Is this supposed to correlate to the mastery level of particular words? I have a couple thousand words at level 1 and 2 but I would like to clear out my mastery level 7-9 before I work on them. I tried setting the bar to strong and it seemed to work for about a month but now I am constantly getting words with mastery 3 or 4 even though I have around 100 words over mastery 7 that need review.
I am just wondering what the prioritize setting is looking at. Thanks for your time.
That setting is frustratingly misleading - I really need to rip it out and just rebuild it from scratch.
If you can give a few specific examples of terms with the issue, I can look it up. It could be the system just running into a limitation in the code (possibly one that can be fixed), or it could be it working, just not very well. Low/weak = level 4 and lower, strong = 5 and up. So if you are all the way to the right on the slider, it SHOULD (I believe) first try and pull 100% from 5 and up.
Just to be sure, do you have either of the other two sliders on that add in terms from external sources?
The other two sliders, mix in terms and study pad items, are both set to none. Now that I know there is a cut off of mastery five and above I can maybe look to see if it is the particular point, for example kanji to kana, pushing it into my review but the term over all is lower.
At one point I was curious about how this worked, so I recorded the overall mastery level* of terms going into each review quiz in each single day (varying strong/weak preference across days). Some graphs are attached below; my general impression is that the slider nudges the question selection in the correct direction, but isn't necessarily absolute -- you will still see some strong terms in each quiz even when favoring weak terms overall.
Personally, I went back to neutral to somewhat mitigate clustering of newer terms in early quizzes, both to avoid some meta-hints and to spread out the mistakes across the quizzes (assuming mastery correlates with how likely I am to get the answer wrong).
(* This might be misleading when prioritizing strong terms, as the vector being quizzed can have higher-than-overall mastery for the term. I don't actually know if the question selection is based on vector or overall mastery.)
