I noticed this and it seemed like a bug so I wanted to be sure to report it.
Under my card ease tabs, I have 280 cards at 130% ease and 296 cards at 131% ease, but my average ease shows up as 133%. The aforementioned 576 cards make up all of the ones that I have started learning so far, so the average ease percent does not seem correct. Looking at my other decks, I see that the percentages appear to be off as well.
Not sure if there any recommendations on correcting this, but if so please let me know! Thanks for your time.
You posted this in the add-ons category, but you don’t say what add-on you think is causing this.
If it’s not related to an add-on, I’d want to see what is actually going on with the underlying cards. What do you see in the Browse window when you click on either of those bars? Do you have any suspended cards? Are there teeny-tiny nearly invisible bars on any of those other numbers?
Ex (from a different graph):
[I’m setting aside my questions about why you have such absurdly low Ease on every card – because you don’t seem concerned about that at all.]
My apologies, I misread the category descriptions when posting this initially. I have changed it now as this is not related to an add on.
When I click on those bars, I get the two attached images. It just shows the cards that I have for review in the future.
I do however have a lot of suspended cards within the deck (i suspended them right away when I got the deck)
I hovered over the invisible columns and all of them say 0.
My other decks that are having the same percentage issue discrepancy have some suspended cards, but no where near as many as this deck.
The reason for the card ease being so low is due to the low key anki setup I am using. I have gone off of what they recommend, so the low ease does not concern me: https://refold.la/roadmap/stage-1/a/anki-setup
I appreciate you mentioning at least that the card ease is super low, I doublechecked and made sure my settings matched theirs so it looks like this is how they have intended.
Since it’s nothing that’s visible on the surface – it’s possible there are some card-ghosties skulking around in your database. Have you run Tools > Check Database?
I just gave it a go, and it said that my database was rebuilt and optimized. However, it appears that the average card ease percentage is still showing as 133%.
Btw, thanks for all your work as you have been helping me try to figure this out.
I don’t see anything in the issue tracker similar to this, but let’s see what @dae wants to happen next with this one. I don’t know if he believes in database ghosties, so he may want to grab some of your data to figure out what is averaging incorrectly.
You’re definitely using SM-2 (not FSRS) – because you still show Ease in your Stats.
It’s not really a “mistake,” since it’s by-design in the approach that Refold / Low-key takes. They argue that since under the SM-2 algorithm your Ease could potentially bottom-out, you might as well start there and stay there. And then they mess with other settings to “fix” the rest of the algorithm. It’s a system to make Ease meaningless – which makes sense if you think Ease is the root of all evil, but doesn’t if you think Ease is a valuable tool for learning.
FSRS doesn’t use Ease at all – but uses a more complicated (and accurate) system built around the Difficulty of a card.
I see, that makes sense. Thank you for the explanation. I want to do more research on all of this before I change anything, this is something I need to think more about.
