How much smarter does Brain Age make you?

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#1 slimdave21
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I downloaded a Brain Age 2 demo off my Wii onto my DS (using the new Nintendo Channel) and i'm sceptical about how much smarter it can make you. I think that it probably makes you use different parts of your brain that you don't always use. I'm guessing that it will improve your reaction times and let you think on-the-spot faster to figure out problems.

Today, I bought the game... I wonder how much smarter it could make myself...

Has Brain Age made any of you smarter?

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Brain age cannot make you smarter. It may be able to make you more responsive when asked to answer a question, or easier to remember daily tasks and such, but since it contains no knowledge on history, physics, algebra, etc, it cannot actually make you smarter.

My view on it anyways.

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#3 BrunoBRS
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it doesnt make u smarter. it makes u think fast. really fast. i reccomend it. and it keeps ur brain fit, in the literal meaning.
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#4 vatterott
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It helped me to review basic math before the school year started. More importantly, it helped me in Quiz Bowl with retrieving information fast. But smarter....No, not really. I don't think it actually makes you smarter, but you are able to remember stuff faster. Smart is something you are born with, not something built up. Sorry.
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Brain age cannot make you smarter. It may be able to make you more responsive when asked to answer a question, or easier to remember daily tasks and such, but since it contains no knowledge on history, physics, algebra, etc, it cannot actually make you smarter.

My view on it anyways.

raven_squad

This

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#6 Momo-yan
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It may be able to make you more responsive when asked to answer a question,

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Definitely. Splitting the check at a restaurant isn't as hard anymore xD "Oh no, why are we missing $10.. everyone take your money back, we have to start again!!"

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#7 lauder_now
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Smart is something you are born with, not something built up. Sorry.vatterott

NO! Smart is NOT what you're born with. YOU HAVE TO EARN IT! I spent my childhood years under strict tutelage and other such programs, and the result is me being 16 years old and in the QLD Academies of Health Sciences in Australia. Believe me, i'm a very academic person, and you have to earn your smarts. I know many people who aren't actually 'smart', but they go home and study so much that they have almost no social life, and the result was they beat me in the physics exam.

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Brain age is a dumb peice of crap if you ask me.
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#9 awssk8er716
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Brain age cannot make you smarter.

raven_squad

There's your answer.

Then again Albert Einstien played Brain Age alot in college.