The study itself is here: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00002/full#note2 …
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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
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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
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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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