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buybuydandavis comments on Dual N-Back browser-based "game" in public alpha-testing state. - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: buybuydandavis 10 July 2012 07:19:31PM -1 points [-]

The absence of transfer to tasks that are unlike the training tasks shows that there is no evidence ...

They wouldn't have even run a study if there was no evidence. Finding no effect according to the study you made and the statistical tests you ran does not make eradicate that prior evidence from existence, and more importantly, it doesn't mean that you wouldn't find evidence if you looked outside the parameters of your study and the particular statistical tests you used.