Monday, December 13, 2010

Video Games Make the Man

And I spent time reading newspapers and books.  

:-(

"Video games found to aid decision making" by Washington Post  |  September 29, 2010

WASHINGTON — Playing action video games, the source of parent-child conflict, may improve a person’s ability to make quick and accurate observations, according to a new study.

Researchers at the University of Rochester found that video gamers who played 50 hours of the fast-paced role-playing games “Call of Duty 2’’ and “Unreal Tournament’’ made accurate decisions up to 25 percent faster than those who played a slow-moving strategy game....  

And here I sit, just a plodding blogger.

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Related: Sunday Globe Special: Big Men on Campus

Aggression from games can linger, study finds 

Thus they will make the perfect soldiers.

I guess we will just have to let the Supreme Court decide whether you kids can "play" before we send you off to kill Israel's enemies.