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The forgetting curve in corporate training: what Ebbinghaus did and didn't show
Ebbinghaus showed in the 1880s that forgetting is fast at first and then slows. He tested one person, himself, on nonsense syllables, measured by relearning time. That shape has been replicated; the popular '70% forgotten in a day' figure isn't what he found.