Study suggests that the “brain training” industry may be a placebo

Re:Study suggests that the “brain training” industry may be ... by ProAm on Monday June 20, 2016 @06:42PM (#11942176)

Im not talking about being an expert, Im talking about intelligence. Intelligent people tend to 'see the forest through the trees' on a grander scale than average or unintelligent people (you can tell Im less than intelligent by my over use of bad analogies) . They don't need to go A -> B because they already know that A -> C is correct. It's a lousy example because everyone here is looking at it like its a procedural problem being solved and it's not. It's about individuals having greater cognitive ability.

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Re:Study suggests that the “brain training” industry may be ... by dragonwriter on Monday June 20, 2016 @09:35PM (#11942914)

I know what you are talking about intelligence, I'm disagreeing with your description and saying it doesn't capture the advantage intelligence provides, but more accurately captured what expertise provides. Now, I'm not clear whether it's just a bad articulation of what you are trying to illustrate or if your underlying concept is wrong, but your description doesn't, IMO, accurately portray the difference that intelligence creates.

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Re:Study suggests that the “brain training” industry may be ... by ProAm on Monday June 20, 2016 @10:10PM (#11943043)

Its the most generic explanation I can use in the shortest amount of text that generally gets the point across. It is a lousy example. It's obvious when people are smart/intelligent and also obvious when the are not, I believe its largely genetic and out of people's control so discussing it or creating websites to better your 'IQ' are mostly a waste of time.

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Re:Study suggests that the “brain training” industry may be ... by dragonwriter on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @08:46AM (#11945225)

I don't think it's obvious at all, and I think people often mistake a number of other things in others (philosophical agreement, expertise in a domain, certain social skills, among others) for general intelligence.

There's also considerable evidence, IIRC, that, while the upper limit a person can reach in intelligence is genetic, that environmental factors play significant roles in both how closely that limit will ever be approached and how well/long what is achieved will be maintained.

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Re:Study suggests that the “brain training” industry may be ... by ProAm on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @01:46PM (#11947729)

Well we'll just agree to disagree on this one :) At the end of the day though it doesn't matter if either one of us is correct, nothing really changes either way.

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