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		tastysandwich on Jan 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Video games that will make me smarter and ... That's from 2019, so do we know how it has fared since then? Have any other studies confirmed their results? I'm fascinated as it sounds too good to be true (and usually such things are)

belkarx on Jan 8, 2023 [–]

Looks like it's overfitting - the tasks in the video game (based on the demo vid) are very similar to the task used to measure changes in attention (test retest!). Sample size could also be bigger.

tastysandwich on Jan 9, 2023 | [–]

And the sample was of healthy people, rather than people with ADHD (who benefit from Ritalin).

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