{"id":3175,"date":"2021-10-24T20:57:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T03:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meandyouis.us\/charles\/learning-scientific-studies-through-careful-highlighting\/"},"modified":"2021-10-24T20:57:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T03:57:53","slug":"learning-scientific-studies-through-careful-highlighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meandyouis.us\/charles\/learning-scientific-studies-through-careful-highlighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning scientific studies through careful highlighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"www.andrewbihl.com\/blog\/highlighting-system\/\">Andrew Bihl<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.andrewbihl.com\/blog\/highlighting-system\/\">:<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.45rem; caret-color: rgba(1, 10, 65, 0.8); color: rgba(1, 10, 65, 0.8); font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">\n<blockquote><p>In my experience, much of learning technical information comes down to drawing categories and relationships. I&#8217;ve found while reading that by highlighting statements according to their purpose, I can more quickly understand the information being presented. It also helps me stay focused and see which statements I didn&#8217;t comprehend on first pass. I assign statements to one of five functions:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul style=\"box-sizing: inherit; list-style-image: none; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 1.45rem 1.45rem; padding: 0px; caret-color: rgba(1, 10, 65, 0.8); color: rgba(1, 10, 65, 0.8); font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">\n<li style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.725rem; padding-left: 0px\">\n<blockquote><p>points<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.725rem; padding-left: 0px\">\n<blockquote><p>limitation<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.725rem; padding-left: 0px\">\n<blockquote><p>evidence<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.725rem; padding-left: 0px\">\n<blockquote><p>value<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0.725rem; padding-left: 0px\">\n<blockquote><p>background<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.org\">Hacker News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Andrew Bihl: In my experience, much of learning technical information comes down to drawing categories and relationships. I&#8217;ve found while reading that by highlighting statements according to their purpose, I can more quickly understand the information being presented. It also helps me stay focused and see which statements I didn&#8217;t comprehend on first pass. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meandyouis.us\/charles\/learning-scientific-studies-through-careful-highlighting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Learning scientific studies through careful highlighting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-3175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-learning"],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Learning scientific studies through careful highlighting - LearningMore<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meandyouis.us\/charles\/learning-scientific-studies-through-careful-highlighting\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Learning scientific studies through careful highlighting - LearningMore\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From Andrew Bihl: In my experience, much of learning technical information comes down to drawing categories and relationships. 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