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See this very thorough article on gwern's [1] website: https://www.gwern.net/DNB%20meta-analysis https://www.gwern.net/DNB%20meta-analysis [1] https://news.yco
by slig 10y ago
See this very thorough article on gwern's [1] website: https://www.gwern.net/DNB%20meta-analysis https://www.gwern.net/DNB%20meta-analysis
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=gwern https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=gwern
- robbiep 10y agoAwesome, thanks. So N-back is not likely a useful method. Therefore this article misconstrues the scientific evidence regarding training.
- drited 10y agoThe article was written in 2011 before many of the follow up studies questioning Jaeggi's initial findings were published. While I think the evidence available today had muddied the water relative to what people thought after Jaeggi was first published, not all avenues have been covered (e.g. do people in knowledge I industries who are more motivated to increase iq try harder and as a result achieve better results). In my opinion, if you can spare the time, there's little to be lost from trying n back training. If it does work for you, the upside is tremendous. Anecdotally I tried it and came up with novel solutions to problems I hadn't previously cracked within a few months of training.