Is Lumosity Bullshit?

kumar.vc

11 points·kumarski··8 comments

One of my family members has autism and their father purchased lumosity thinking it would help their child. I wanted to look closer and got angrier as I looked closer so I wrote this to ask questions that are sensible.

Weird how bad logic sets off emotions.

Does Lumosity make any claims about improving autism conditions? It's a pretty big leap of logic to believe that a generic brain game system should improve autism range conditions.

Agreed.

That was my first objection to my family members.

Lumosity does however make claims on brain improvements.

Autism isn't just a "bad brain" condition that needs a "make brain better" game. Unfortunately it's a very specific condition with very specific needs.

Calling Lumosity bullshit due to some expectation towards it that it doesn't make is akin to calling vitamin tablets bullshit because they don't cure diabetes.

Read the scientific claims that I question in the post.

Some ASD websites claim Lumosity helps ASD. I have no idea if these are above board organic links; or paid links; or secret shills.

http://autismsd.com/lumosity-and-autism/

http://tarf.nereanieto.com/tag/lumosity/

"Treats autism" is a medical claim so Luminosity would need to be very careful if they did ever make that claim. Which makes me gently suspicious of all the blog coverage. And specialist blogs for medical conditions can be full of cranks.

If, by bullshit, you mean all of its claims are unsubstantiated? Then yes, obviously, lol.

I am a paying customer of Lumosity. I am not sure if it's useful.

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