James_Miller comments on Intelligence Amplification Open Thread - Less Wrong

46 Post author: Will_Newsome 15 September 2010 08:39AM

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Comment author: James_Miller 15 September 2010 10:14:45PM 3 points [-]

To the best of my knowledge only one small N-back study has been done and the results were strongly positive. There would be significant social value in getting more data on N-Backing.

Comment author: gwern 15 September 2010 11:00:58PM *  3 points [-]

http://www.gwern.net/N-back%20FAQ#support

Besides Jaeggi 2008, there have been 2 or 3 studies supporting it to some degree, and 2 or 3 studies opposing it to some degree.