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=== Cognitive Health Test ===

=== Cognitive Health Test ===

Everyone should track their cognitive ability as much as health-conscious people track their heartrate and exercise. [[Quantified Mind|Formal cognitive testing]] takes too much time and effect on daily life of the specific thing the cognitive test tests is often questioned. Skill trainers and testers like typing tutors have neither problem but do not necessarily generalize to cognition and health. Even if a skill test is useful for optimizing the skill, things like psychological dependencies may not make it a good cognitive skill test. The skill test must correlate with validated cognitive tests or obviously important health things. Wozniak of supermemo has found correlation between sleep and flash card skill.     

Everyone should track their cognitive ability as much as health-conscious people track their heartrate and exercise. [[Quantified Mind|Formal cognitive testing]] takes too much time and effect on daily life of the specific thing the cognitive test tests is often questioned. Skill trainers and testers like typing tutors have neither problem but do not necessarily generalize to cognition and health. Even if a skill test is useful for optimizing the skill, things like dependence on psychological factors may not make it a good cognitive test. The skill test must correlate with validated cognitive tests or obviously important health things. Wozniak of supermemo has found correlation between sleep and flash card skill.     

== References ==  

== References ==