A bunch of headlines talking about a new "brain training" app and how amazing it is Except, it's all nonsense, brain training is still mostly bunk. Threadpic.twitter.com/5XtgIBg9YY
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So, firstly, this study has NOTHING AT ALL to do with ADHD, or mental health in general
The authors are HOPEFUL that it MIGHT be used in mental health settings, but as yet there has been no research on this whatsoever
Secondly, even if we take the research at face value, it's a bit vague and meaningless For one thing, 75 participants is probably not enough to have much confidence in such a small difference
A realistic headline would be "App improves scores on one brain test (slightly), but doesn't do anything for other intelligence measures" Not as catchy, perhaps, but a bit more accurate
If we take a more skeptical viewpoint of the whole thing, though, a piece of research conducted by game designers to demonstrate that their game is better than a strange Bingo control in a small group of people might be considered to be...problematic
Ultimately, there's still no good evidence that "brain training" games do much except make you better at performing tasks similar to the game, which is almost entirely useless to everyone's life Just play something fun instead
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