James_Miller comments on How much wealth is produced by high IQ people? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: James_Miller 14 March 2014 06:19:31PM 0 points [-]

I suspect there is a high expected value in testing if brain training games raise the intelligence of high IQ young people.

Comment author: JonahSinick 14 March 2014 06:46:40PM 0 points [-]

There's a lot of data on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory_training working memory training] not working for most people. Intuitively, it seems as though certain video games improve abstract pattern recognition, but the significance of this is unclear.