Novice pilot skills improved via expert-pilot brainwave patterns
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#2That is without a doubt the freakiest thing I have read this week.
(Tl:dr - they recorded trans-cranial currents in motor and working memory areas of experts landing a plane and replayed that or a control into novice pilots heads. The novices perfeomed 33% better.)
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#3sounds too good to be true.
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#4I wonder what else they picked up...
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#5"I know kung fu."
"Show me."
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#6sounds too good to be true.
Agreed. I'm sceptical.
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#7Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, not a study with a sample size of 32, including the control group. I remain super skeptical that the statistically significant result actually implies a real result (and the smaller the study, the lower the chances.)
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#9The novices performed 33% better could be totally like a cognitive placebo effect OR MORE LIKELY the fact that they had to do it ONE MORE TIME LOL... I am either missing something really big or this is a draft of an April 1st joke released early
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#10I'd have liked to have seen two control groups. One group which received the "mock brain stimulation" and another which received no brain stimulation. It may be the case that playing noise into someone's brain has a detrimental effect on performance which is less prevalent when the stimulus roughly corresponds to the activity of a healthy brain.
If you drop a heavy weight onto someone's foot, they're likely to perform better on tests of mental acuity than if you were to drop a heavy weight onto their head. That doesn't necessarily mean that dropping the weight on their foot improved their performance, just that it was less harmful.
Unless I'm missing something, the poor experimental design coupled with the small sample size makes me very skeptical of the results. I'd love to see another experiment with more conclusive findings either way.