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Interesting! If anyone wants to give it a go, I just made a quick Dual-N-back app a couple of days ago, after reading Gwern's (who else?) excellent FAQ on the s
by ukoki 13y ago
Interesting! If anyone wants to give it a go, I just made a quick Dual-N-back app a couple of days ago, after reading Gwern's (who else?) excellent FAQ on the subject.
My web app:
http://nnback.ukoki.com http://nnback.ukoki.com
Gwern's FAQ:
http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ
- jerf 13y agoIncidentally, if this is intended as some sort of response to gwern's other post [1] as if he's never heard of dual n-back... please do read that FAQ. All 124 pages of it, according to my Firefox print preview. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6521885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6521885
- gwern 13y agoOr if you're lazy, just check the latest version of my n-back meta-analysis (http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20meta-analysis#control-groups http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20meta-analysis#control-groups): looks like the current point estimate for n-back's increase of IQ is 0.15 (so, 2 IQ points), and is not statistically-significant (p=0.14). A few of the researchers in the area have encouraged me to clean this up for publication, which would be nice. (Not that the rest of OP is much better than the n-back material. 'I worked with autistic kids and I can cherrypick a few examples of improvement!' As if he had never heard of regression to the mean or selection effects.)
- Flip-per 13y agoThe instructions of the webapp are incorrect, isn't LEFT and RIGHT mixed up? At least for 1n and 2n, I didn't try more. update yep, the instruction text doesn't match the keyboard shortcut list
- ukoki 13y agooops thanks. Updating the instructions now.