SO YOU MAY HAVE SEEN THOSE ADVERTISEMENTS ON
TELEVISION FOR THINGS LIKE LUMINOSITY, WHICH GIVE YOU
BRAIN GAMES YOU CAN PLAY THAT WILL MAKE YOU SMARTER.
ACCORDING TO A RECENT RULING, AND RECENT STUDIES, THAT'S
JUST NOT REALLY TRUE.
ACCORDING TO THIS RECENT STUDY, THEY PUT TWO DIFFERENT FIRES UP,
AND THEY WANTED TO SEE, ONE SAID THERE'S BRAIN TRAINING AND
COGNITIVE ENHANCEMENT AVAILABLE, THE OTHER ONE SAID, DO YOU
WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE STUDY?
WHY ARE THESE TWO THINGS DIFFERENT?
THEY HYPOTHESIZED THAT YOU ONLY GET SMARTER FROM THINGS IF
YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING TO GET SMARTER FROM THINGS.
THEY HYPOTHESIZED, AND APPROVED, ESSENTIALLY, THAT IF YOU WERE
TOLD, YOU'RE GONNA TAKE THIS IQ TEST AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO
GIVE YOU AN HOUR OF BRAIN TRAINING AND IT WILL MAKE YOU
SMARTER, AND THEN SELECT PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY'RE GOING TO GET
SMARTER FROM BRAIN TRAINING, THOSE PEOPLE WOULD DO BETTER ON
A TEST THAT PEOPLE WHO WOULD JUST THINK THEY'RE SHOWING
UP TO A STUDY.
ACCORDING TO THE RESULTS, LET'S LOOK AT IT, THE STRAIGHT LINE
THAT LOOKS UP, THAT'S THE PLACEBO.
THOSE WERE THE PEOPLE WHO WERE TOLD THEY COULD GET SMARTER.
THEIR RESULTS ON THE SOLID LINE, IQ POINTS WENT UP BY FIVE OR
10 POINTS AFTER TAKING A BRAIN TRAINING TEST.
THE PEOPLE IN THE CONTROL GROUP WHO WEREN'T TOLD THEY COULD
MAKE THEM SMARTER, AND DIDN'T NECESSARILY BELIEVE THEY
COULD GET SMARTER AS A RESULT OF THIS THING ñ BECAUSE
THEY'RE JUST SIGNING UP FOR A TEST ñ THEY DIDN'T GET SMARTER.
ACCORDING TO THE GEORGE MASON STUDY, "IT IS EXTREMELY
UNLIKELY THAT INDIVIDUALS IN THE PLACEBO GROUP INCREASED THEIR
IQ BY FIVE ñ 10 POINTS WITH ONE HOUR OF COGNITIVE TRAINING."
THIS BLOWS MY MIND.
WHY?
ACCORDING TO THE STUDY, PEOPLE WHO THINK INTELLIGENCE IS
MALLEABLE GOT SMARTER, AND PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T THINK
THAT DIDN'T GET ANY SMARTER.
THEY SAY IT'S ALSO EVIDENCE OF HOW IMPORTANT MOTIVATION CAN BE
FOR COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE.
THESE PEOPLE WENT IN EXPECTING A RESULT AT THE END OF IT, SO WHEN
THEY ARE GIVEN THAT LAST TEST YOU BET THEIR ASS THEY ARE
GOING TO BE MOTIVATED.
THEY WANT TO BE THE OUTLIER.
THIS ARTICLE ALSO SAID THERE IS NO REASON WHY ONE HOUR OF
TRAINING SHOULD MAKE ANY REASONABLE DIFFERENCE IN
SOMEONE'S IQ, SO FOR SOMEONE TO THINK THAT I'M ALREADY
WRITING THEM OFF.
ONE HOUR OF TRAINING TO RAISE OR IQ?
COME ON.
BUT IT WORKED!
THE PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT THEY COULD GET SMARTER FROM THIS
GOT SMARTER.
THEY DID BETTER ON THE TEST, THEY DIDN'T RAISE THEIR IQ.
THE TEST PROVES THAT THEY RAISE THEIR IQ.
NO.
THEY HAD A HIGHER IQ ACCORDING TO THE TEST.
THIS IS BREAKING NEWS TO ME.
PEOPLE WHO STUDY DID SAY THERE ARE THINGS THAT ARE MORE
RELIABLE IN AFFECTING YOUR INTELLIGENCE AND THAT THE
TRAINING ITSELF DIDN'T DO ANYTHING, AS PROVED BY THIS.
FOR AN INITIAL STUDY, PRETTY IMPRESSIVE.
IT WAS A PRETTY SMALL STUDY.
HERE'S THINGS THAT AFFECT INTELLIGENCE, GENETICS, IF YOU
ARE BORN SMART YOU WILL STAY SMART.
OVERTIME, EVERYONE GETS STUPIDER.
YOUR EDUCATION.
THEY SAID EVERY YEAR THAT YOU DO EDUCATION, THAT YOU STAY IN
SCHOOL, YOU GAIN 3.7 IQ POINTS.
NUTRITION AND ENVIRONMENT.
NOT THAT YOUR ENVIRONMENT WILL MAKE YOU SMARTER, BUT IF
YOU HAVE LIKE ñ
IT CAN MAKE YOU DUMBER.
IF YOU HAVE LEAD POISONING YOU LOSE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF POINTS.
IODINE DEFICIENCY.
CURRENTLY BAD NUTRITION.
AND OVER TIME THEY SAY WE GET SMARTER.
ACCORDING TO THIS STUDY, EVERY DECADE INCREASES THE BASE, THE
AVERAGE IQ POINT BY TWO ñ THREE POINTS.
TAKE THAT, PARENTS.