Do people actually think Luminosity makes them smarter?

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Luminosity?

Some scam to "train your brain"

Just pay a small fee of 99.98 to unlock the next brain game!


 
 
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Alrighty let's have a looksie at their studies page.

http://www.lumosity.com/hcp/research/completed
#1
Sample group of 21 people
kek

#2
Analysis of site data to provide nothing meaningful

#3
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The results of the study showed that those students who supplemented their regular curricula with Lumosity training experienced greater changes[/u] in their scores on our battery of cognitive assessments than a control group of students who did not complete Lumosity training.
Topkek

#4
Now that's a bit more like it.

#5
Not summarised not clicking

#6
Seems a bit better, but are they just being coached in the shit that they are being examined on? I'll bet.

#7
Again, this one seems better.

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found that patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) who trained with Lumosity experienced a change in performance[/u] on a measure of visual attention

#9
Preliminary findings - Pls go

#10
And breaking news from the university of no shit sherlock,
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Improvement on Lumosity's exercises depends on age. Results from an online study of 132,147 participants.
GG.

#11
Same as #10, who would have thought that more malleable brains benefit more from cognitive training eh?
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This study analyzed Lumosity performance of 446,393 different users ages 13 to 21 on their first play of a basic arithmetic game called Raindrops. Analysis of the total number of correct answers revealed large improvements in Lumosity performance between ages 13 and 17 with performance leveling out after the age of 17.

#12
The university of No Shit Sherlock is really going to town today
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The rates of both age-related cognitive decline and training improvement depend on the cognitive tasks.

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Lumosity's scientists have created and studied the Brain Performance Test (BPT), a brief repeatable assessment battery we developed in order to measure performance on cognitive and neuropsychological tasks.

Potassium.

tl;dr = Nothing you can't do with a book of sudoku puzzles and a rubix cube. Save yourself the money and don't buy into bullshit.


 
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Well, whether it works or not, they desperately need to jog their minds a little, even if it's when they realise the scam.