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title: Research — Socrates
description: Essays and field notes from the team behind Socrates.
canonical: https://topodrive.top/research
last-updated: 2026-08-22
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# Research — Socrates

> Essays and field notes from the team behind Socrates.

Socrates Research is our ongoing notes on what we have learned about learning. The essays are short, written by the team, and updated when our view changes.

## By the numbers

Six published notes · five active research threads · 1,847 explanation episodes analysed.

## Latest essays

- [The route back to an idea](research/memory-recall/) — How a small change in prompt can surface a concept more reliably than a repeated answer.
- [When a clear explanation becomes evidence](research/explanation-evidence/) — Three years of A/B data on "explain this in your own words" prompts.
- [The value of an honest pause](research/honest-pause/) — Why a moment of uncertainty gives a tutor better material than fluent confidence.
- [Maps that preserve the path](research/maps-preserve-path/) — A field note on showing relationships without turning a living subject into a static diagram.
- [When a tutor should say it is unsure](research/tutor-curiosity/) — On the conditions under which a model admitting uncertainty is more useful than a fluent guess.
- [What learners keep after a session](research/what-learners-keep/) — A small study on the parts of a conversation that people actually revisit a week later.

## Why we publish this

We write these notes to make our decisions legible. If the tutor behaves a particular way during a session, there is usually a note here that explains why.

## Contact

If a research note raises an idea you want to push further — partnership, replication, or a contradiction — write to [help@addtech.site](mailto:help@addtech.site).