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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]12:37, I don't think you get what Lumosity is.

It's not really a game site. It's a "brain training" site with games designed to improve memory, cognition, etc. Assumptions that might apply to actual video games (more males than females, more STEM than humanities) don't necessarily apply to Lumosity.

I think 08:36 summed up the problems with this the best, and I personally think this has about as much credence as an IQ test. [/quote]

Why would college students even be playing these games?  70 year-olds who are worried about dementia, I can understand.  I would be interested in a break down by age group of who visits the site.[/quote]

College students play electronic games all the time.  Even in class.  [/quote]

College students play plenty of iPhone games, but not Luminosity. I know, I have a college student. Teenagers who have just been through SATs have no interest in further "brain building."  The "brain building" market is the AARP crowd, which is worried about losing it.

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You realize that your sample size is "one" - not much of a basis to speak on behalf of all college students.[/quote]

Except... I work for AARP and happen to know a little bit about this market. (You didn't see that one coming, did you? ;)). And your sample size is zero, so there's that.[/quote]

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