And when I say 'a bit better', emphasis on the 'bit' The results are presented as "significant" but just LOOK AT THIS GRAPHpic.twitter.com/8EiqVhdBig
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And when I say 'a bit better', emphasis on the 'bit' The results are presented as "significant" but just LOOK AT THIS GRAPHpic.twitter.com/8EiqVhdBig
There is an apparent ~3% difference in the scores, but this is described as "significant" throughout Is this significant? It's really hard to tell because the single measure used is very hard to relate to actual lifepic.twitter.com/UqvlW2YI6a
It's also worth noting that in previous studies this test has given 7 statistics, but in this paper only one was presented Not necessarily an issue, but a bit oddpic.twitter.com/s85VrUMpMN
And on the other measure, there was no significant improvement over control of the Decoder app grouppic.twitter.com/p8RC6j88Lh
The study also talks a lot about how much more people enjoyed the app than the Bingo control, but if you read the description it's not hard to tell why Bingo sounds hella boringpic.twitter.com/eg6qXwZQ0B
It's also worth noting that there are some pretty significant conflicts of interest at play here The people who evaluated the app are likely to directly financially benefit from this studypic.twitter.com/eNddOD8vQo
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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