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Gwern is a person unhealthily obsessed with proving that IQ tests work and cannot be considered a reliable source.
by e10a 7y ago
Gwern is a person unhealthily obsessed with proving that IQ tests work and cannot be considered a reliable source.
- gwern 7y agoThat's quite a leap there. There is no contradiction between thinking IQ tests work and thinking that DNB increases IQ; I thought it did, and it was a bitter experience learning first-hand how exactly the Replication Crisis works. If you think I am an unreliable source, why don't you look at the other meta-analyses like Melby-Lervåg, or Sala? Or look at the criticisms made by researchers like Redick whose experiments turned out to be nulls? (Redick's most recent comment on DNB is titled "The Hype Cycle of Working Memory Training" https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/U8YNVXKM5SKF6ZY9TQBR/full https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/U8YNVXKM5SKF6ZY9TQBR/ful... , so you can probably guess what he thinks of DNB now.) Or look at what the field thinks in recent studies - assuming you can find any recent DNB/IQ studies, as everyone has realized that it doesn't do anything.