How we register and retain information
Posted on April 17, 2007 in
I sat in on a workshop recently and one of the slides had some interesting points about how we use our senses to register and retain information. It stated:
How we register information
- 83% by sight
- 11% by sound
- 3.5% by smell
- 1.5% by touch
- 1% by taste
How we retain information
- 20% of what we HEAR
- 30% of what we SEE
- 50% of what we HEAR and SEE
- 70% of what we DISCUSS
- 90% of what we MAKE and MANAGE ourselves
I’m not sure what the source of the information was but it seems to make sense and helped me understand how I could potentially learn and retain stuff better. What really interested me was how we retain 70% of what we DISCUSS, this is one of the techniques I often use when trying to learn something. When learning something new I try to tell other people about what I’ve just learnt (which might include writing a blog entry on it) to see if I’ve effectively understood what I was trying to learn.
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