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Reading your own scores
A practice score is only useful if you know what it is telling you. Most people
read the headline number, which is the least informative part of it.
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Three ideas do most of the work here: your score is a trade-off, it is relative, and one sitting
is noise.
Speed and error are one number, not two
On every timed attention test, you are choosing a point on a curve. Push the pace and your error
rate rises; protect accuracy and your coverage falls. There is no setting where both improve,
which is why "work faster" is not advice.