The PIERQ : Post-Information Exposure Recall Quiz

Question : How Is Something Learned?

• One technique is by asking a person questions after they have been exposed to information.
  
• Doing so helps a person reaffirm the information they have been exposed to and integrate the information in a manner which works with their unique mental framework.

Question : How Do We Learn Language?

• Language is the skill which is most inherently human. Language defines humanity. The species of the planet Earth which can communicate with far and away the greatest sophistication of any species by infinite orders of magnitude.
  
• So, how does a child learn to speak? By being exposed to language, and then by reaffirming that language with questions.
  
• "What's that baby? What's that?" The baby responds teddy, or bed, or bottle, or apple, and so on.
  
• "What's dat?", Baby asks. Mommy or Daddy answers, "That's a chair, or that's a table, or that's a tv," and so on.
• So it goes. For days and months and years and this exposure to knowledge with subsequent cementing by the technique of question and answer results in a person learning language.
• This same principle can be applied to the technique of using quizzes to cement knowledge gained from exposure to information gleaned from the internet.
• There's a vast amount of knowledge on the internet, and to be an empowered citizen of the world requires a profound level of education.
• Quizzing to cement knowledge is an excellent technique to achieve this.
  

Hafiz : A Person Who Has Memorized The Quran

• There are tens of millions of Hafidhs and Hafidahs in the world.
• The Quran is memorized by constant recitation and questioning students regularly on the Quran's content.

The Written Chinese Language

• To read a newspaper written in Chinese characters, a person must know a minimum of between 3000-5000 characters.
  
• Most literate Chinese people know about 10,000 characters.
  
• Chinese literary scholars know 30,000 plus characters.
• It's an amazing feat of memorization which is commonplace for more than 1/7th of the world's population.
• How is it achieved? Exposure to information (Chinese characters). Being questioned about the information (encountering characters which are unfamiliar). Affirming the answer to the question (practicing unknown characters over and over).
• How is knowledge secured? Question and Answer.
  

The PIERQ

• Very simple. Whoever wants others to further think about and perhaps memorize information they have shared, prepares a quiz which other people can take after they have been exposed to the information originally shared. That's it.
  
• When people put the effort into sharing their own point of view, it is nice, and useful, if the people who have been exposed to the point of view can have an opportunity to test and recall the information they have been exposed to.