Flawed article that ironically reproduces fallacies like those it attempts to point out.
"The Which? report found, with the help of several neuroscientists, that there was no peer-reviewed evidence to back up any of the manufacturer’s claims that they will improve performance or stave off dementia and other mental illnesses."
Neither the above quote nor the debunking of their internal studies as junk equals any proof to the contrary, that brain training -- or this product for that matter -- doesn't work.
You are making the wrong assumption that effect/no effect are equal probability of being true.
However, the way science works is that you have to prove an affect. The null hypothesis is that brain training doesn't have any affect on "performance". To assert otherwise, you need evidence.
>>Neither the above quote nor the debunking of their internal studies as junk equals any proof to the contrary, that brain training -- or this product for that matter -- doesn't work.
The article isn't meant to be proof that it doesn't work. He is saying that there is no good evidence to believe it does.
Since you have no studies proving that I'm wrong, then I should be given the benefit of the doubt?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If the "Brain Training" crowd can't provide any conclusive and scientific evidence that this stuff does what they either say outright or imply strongly depending upon how "on the record" they are, I don't see why we shouldn't presume that it is all quackery until proven otherwise.
I used Lumosity for a year and I was very sure that it helped me. Just doing daily mental exercises helped me in a way that felt similar to daily physical exercise. It think I saw improvement in the brain areas that I knew I was weaker in. My wife also did it with me, and she has definitely improved some.
Dunno if it was the "brain training" that was to credit, but simply doing the exercises seemed to be beneficial.
"The Which? report found, with the help of several neuroscientists, that there was no peer-reviewed evidence to back up any of the manufacturer’s claims that they will improve performance or stave off dementia and other mental illnesses."
Neither the above quote nor the debunking of their internal studies as junk equals any proof to the contrary, that brain training -- or this product for that matter -- doesn't work.