I suck.
I have a load of excuses that I'll get out of the way first:
I'm a bit sick. I'm tired today. I've been tired lately. I'm still learning the controls and rules. I haven't been a student for a year and a half. I'm still shaking off the brain-rust. I had novacane which was injected into the back of my mouth and I have to believe some of that numbness spread from my teeth to the old thinker. Korea and my lack of daily communication with a wide range of people who are my intellectual equals has atrophied my brain (there's only one person keeping me from being near-vegetative mental status and that's you). It was a first try. The games are rigged as a marketing ploy to keep you hooked so you automatically do worse in the beginning and then continue with the service because your score climbs each time but really it's programmed to do just that. I was hungry.
And done.
Okay, have you heard of Luminosity? It was an iPhone app, and is now on computers and maybe other devices. It's full title and motto are Luminosity: Brain Games & Brain Training. Improve your brain health and performance with brain games designed by neuroscientists to exercise memory and attention. They have commercials and online ads and everything.
I have a load of excuses that I'll get out of the way first:
I'm a bit sick. I'm tired today. I've been tired lately. I'm still learning the controls and rules. I haven't been a student for a year and a half. I'm still shaking off the brain-rust. I had novacane which was injected into the back of my mouth and I have to believe some of that numbness spread from my teeth to the old thinker. Korea and my lack of daily communication with a wide range of people who are my intellectual equals has atrophied my brain (there's only one person keeping me from being near-vegetative mental status and that's you). It was a first try. The games are rigged as a marketing ploy to keep you hooked so you automatically do worse in the beginning and then continue with the service because your score climbs each time but really it's programmed to do just that. I was hungry.
And done.
Okay, have you heard of Luminosity? It was an iPhone app, and is now on computers and maybe other devices. It's full title and motto are Luminosity: Brain Games & Brain Training. Improve your brain health and performance with brain games designed by neuroscientists to exercise memory and attention. They have commercials and online ads and everything.
I took the free test and scored 29,000; 22,000; and 4,200. Do these scores mean anything to you? Me neither because I don't have a reference point for what's good for each and as the one I think I did best on (I completed three out of three bird pictures!) is that 4,200 so obviously the point system isn't standardized. I bought the service. Two years for $3.33 a month? Hell yeah that's a good deal! If I could find four others interested in splitting the cost with me, I could get that down to $1 a month for two years, but I don't have that many friends. The "brain analysis" they promised me was a sham, but whatever. Those three scores don't seem to be recorded or up for comparison with others, but the daily test scores are.
In school, I ALWAYS scored 90th percentile or above. My best was 97th if I remember right and I don't remember anything below 93rd. I made standardized tests my bitch. Even the practice ones.
So when my best score (problem solving) is only the 80th percentile, I'm pissed at myself. Especially since my others are 31st (speed), 29th (attention), and 24th (flexibility). My memory hasn't been tested yet so I can't get my overall score or my Brain Performance Index but goddammit I'm pissed.
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