Goodbye Brain Games…Hello Facebook Creeping
Posted by: edmondso on: April 21, 2010
A recent study found that online games aimed at improving cognitive skills don’t really work. So, here’s a breakdown of the study. 8,600 plus viewers of BBC’s “Bang Goes the Theory” were asked to play online brain games for at least ten minutes at a time for three days a week. This group was compared to over 2,700 people who did not play the brain games, but instead browsed the Internet. The researchers used the results from I.Q. tests taken before and after the six-week test to determine that neither group proved to be smarter than the other. Interesting stuff, I tell you.
So, this study was probably bad for me to come across. I feel as if I spend way too much time looking at pointless things on the Internet, oh like Facebook, for example. I find myself randomly clicking on people’s profiles for no reason and before I know it, twenty minutes has gone by. Obviously, not a good use of my time. However, I know there are plenty of other people out there like myself. If more studies like this take place and find similar findings, it will have a definite effect on consumers. Those quick adapters will be ready to throw all the knowledge out the window and just play on the Internet. This is not what the world needs because nothing will ever get done. This just proves that technology can be our best friend and our enemy. So, you smart scientists out there, please keep trying to find ways to make us more intelligent!
For a more in-depth look at the article that details the study, click here.
