• RagnarokOnline@programming.dev
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    4 months ago

    SYAC:

    “What all this shows is that it is unlikely chess has a significant impact on overall cognitive ability. So while it might sound like a quick win – that a game of chess can improve a broad range of skills – unfortunately this is not the case.“

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        4 months ago

        Yeah a lot of times “getting smarter” is simply about looking at things from a different perspective or thinking through issues logically.

        While with regard to IQ I don’t think it makes one smarter, it definitely exercises your mental faculties and in an aging population that would be extremely beneficial.

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    I’ve learned from Lemmy that whenever an author uses a question for a headline the answer is no. I can’t remember exactly where or what this was called but it really has changed my scrolling experience.

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    This is a bad article.

    Being more “intelligent” makes one better at chess and chess reinforces patterns traditionally seen as a measure of intelligence.

    Being good at chess is: memorization and pattern recognition. Being able to abstract and anticipate. All of these things are traditionally seen as intelligence. But that’s a bad way of looking at intelligence and chess, generally.