Timeline for Does Lumosity increase your intelligence?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:46 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Oct 20, 2014 at 16:15 | history | edited | Oddthinking♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Reworked the contect around the consensus statement - changed it from an afterthought to the strongest part of the answer.
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| Oct 20, 2014 at 16:05 | history | edited | Ruben | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 25, 2014 at 10:48 | comment | added | Ruben | @ChrisS I link just two things (the reason: this part-question has been aptly answered here already): A Wikipedia article and a question on this site. The answer on this site refers to an article from an APA task force which came to a consensus. That consensus supports my assertions. I gave another ref, Deary 2004, in the comments. Since you're such a helpful spirit, you might want to add these articles as references to the Wikipedia article. I refuse to debate this with you further, because you seem unwilling to assume good faith. | |
| Jan 24, 2014 at 21:42 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | [Comments removed/edited. Keep it nice.] | |
| Jan 24, 2014 at 21:25 | comment | added | Chris S | You're quoting a Wikipedia section whose first sentence has a missing reference. The other reference in that section is a self-reference, and a book from 1937. | |
| Jan 19, 2014 at 21:13 | comment | added | Chris S |
Psychometricians generally regard IQ tests as having high statistical reliability.[citation needed] I found that funny - you might want a better source!
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| Jul 11, 2013 at 9:17 | comment | added | Ruben | @jwenting Please. I won't challenge your anecdotes with my anecdotes. I gave you a good reference. Or Wikipedia. g means that it is not testing-style-specific. But yes, you can learn the results for a specific test by heart (if you're good at memorising, which is g-loaded, but I digress), you can practice some stuff. I didn't deny this in the first comment. If you read some of the links I posted, you'll find that one big problem with purported "training transfer effects" is that the training task is too similar to the outcome task. Chat, if you've got further questions, won't debate in c. | |
| Jul 11, 2013 at 5:21 | comment | added | jwenting | have you ever done such tests? It IS possible to train for them, and the score is highly dependent on aptitude for the specific style of testing performed. | |
| Jul 10, 2013 at 14:39 | comment | added | Ruben | @jwenting Mh. I used IQ as a shorthand for IQ test scores, which can change radically (think concussion), but usually don't (rank order is preserved, even when it comes to dementia) and is not highly dependent on test prep., circumstances and training (of course testing circumstances are held somewhat constant usually). Check your facts, read e.g. Deary 2004. | |
| Jul 10, 2013 at 11:37 | comment | added | jwenting | while IQ is a decent measure, it's a spot measurement and can change radically over a person's life. Also IQ isn't the same as IQ test scores, which is highly dependent on circumstances during the test as well as test preparation and training (some people are just better at test taking than others, that doesn't mean they're less intelligent). | |
| Jul 9, 2013 at 16:13 | history | edited | Ruben | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 8, 2013 at 16:33 | history | edited | Ruben | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 8, 2013 at 8:09 | history | edited | Ruben | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 7, 2013 at 18:51 | history | edited | Ruben | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 7, 2013 at 16:54 | comment | added | Oddthinking♦ | Would you like to tackle this question too? skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/16161/… | |
| May 7, 2013 at 9:59 | history | edited | Ruben | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 7, 2013 at 1:08 | comment | added | The Rouge | Thank you very much. I appreciate your intelligible and well-supported response. | |
| May 7, 2013 at 1:07 | vote | accept | The Rouge | ||
| May 6, 2013 at 23:48 | history | edited | Ruben | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 6, 2013 at 21:27 | history | edited | Ruben | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 6, 2013 at 21:20 | history | answered | Ruben | CC BY-SA 3.0 |