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Tetris Improves Your Brain
An anonymous reader writes "Playing Tetris increases the density of the cortex and improves the efficiency of some parts of the brain, according to researchers investigating video games and other complex spatial tasks." Unfortunately, storing a half million copies of the song negates any practical functional gains beyond loading your trunk very efficiently.
They can't really make any claims about anything unless they have a good control group. It's like saying that my brain is growing better because I like peanut butter. Or perhaps because I enjoy walking. Or because I like to crack my knuckles. There are millions of variables. They could at the very least try to isolate one of them before claiming any causation.
which is totally what she said
Correct. And, yes, the crowd highly modded the ass-product.
This is where we're at with modern discourse.