Using N-Back is a good measure, actually. What do you think that would come under? Memory? What do you think would be level 1? Dual 1-back? and level 2 would be dual 2-back?
I see you’ve edited the wiki page to add dual 1-back to “memory”. I have some doubts about this, because a) no one really knows whether n-back is good for anything except improving n-back performance, b) I’d like to only include things that clearly and obviously sound like good ideas to the average person, and avoid things that may sound like snake oil (even if they aren’t in fact snake oil). Would you mind reverting that edit? I don’t want to do it myself because that would mark the beginning of a passive-aggressive edit war.
Also, nice idea about pancakes! It’s pretty much the perfect level 1 task.
Oh ok. I didn’t know that about N-back. I guess, from hearing about it so much here, that I thought it was more solid than that. No problem I’ll revert it.
and I wouldn’t mind if you reverted it as long as I had the explanation :)
Sounds reasonable. Might be worth further subdividing into working memory versus long-term memory since they would seem likely to be useful for different things?
Ok, and have removed it again at a request from cousin_it, who says that it’s not confirmed that n-back has any effect on actually improving short-term memory (except as applied to playing n-back). I am not qualified to continue that discussion—if you’d like to continue it… it’s in one of cousin_it’s comments on the page somewhere… feel free to take up the thread ;)
Using N-Back is a good measure, actually. What do you think that would come under? Memory? What do you think would be level 1? Dual 1-back? and level 2 would be dual 2-back?
I see you’ve edited the wiki page to add dual 1-back to “memory”. I have some doubts about this, because a) no one really knows whether n-back is good for anything except improving n-back performance, b) I’d like to only include things that clearly and obviously sound like good ideas to the average person, and avoid things that may sound like snake oil (even if they aren’t in fact snake oil). Would you mind reverting that edit? I don’t want to do it myself because that would mark the beginning of a passive-aggressive edit war.
Also, nice idea about pancakes! It’s pretty much the perfect level 1 task.
Oh ok. I didn’t know that about N-back. I guess, from hearing about it so much here, that I thought it was more solid than that. No problem I’ll revert it.
and I wouldn’t mind if you reverted it as long as I had the explanation :)
Sounds reasonable. Might be worth further subdividing into working memory versus long-term memory since they would seem likely to be useful for different things?
Ok, and have removed it again at a request from cousin_it, who says that it’s not confirmed that n-back has any effect on actually improving short-term memory (except as applied to playing n-back). I am not qualified to continue that discussion—if you’d like to continue it… it’s in one of cousin_it’s comments on the page somewhere… feel free to take up the thread ;)
Have added them as “sub” goals of Memory as “long-term” and “short-term” memory. They don’t need to be top-level skills, I think.