gwern comments on Checking for the Programming Gear - Less Wrong

5 Post author: MBlume 08 September 2012 08:38PM

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Comment author: fubarobfusco 09 September 2012 01:12:00AM 14 points [-]

It irritates me to no end that the original study is so much better known than the utter failure to replicate. I have to suspect that this has something to do with how conveniently it fits many programmers' notion that programmers are a special sort of person, possessed of some power beyond merely a lot of practice at programming and related skills.

Comment author: gwern 09 September 2012 02:32:04AM 12 points [-]

I feel much the same way about dual n-back studies. There was an article this month or last about WM training with Jaeggi and Buschkuel as authors... and it mentioned not a single issue. Gah!