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Video Games Lead to Faster Decisions That Are No Less Accurate

The researchers tested dozens of 18- to 25-year-olds who were not ordinarily video game players. They split the subjects into two groups. One group played 50 hours of the fast-paced action video games "Call of Duty 2" and "Unreal Tournament," and the other group played 50 hours of the slow-moving strategy game "The Sims 2."

After this training period, all of the subjects were asked to make quick decisions in several tasks designed by the researchers. In the tasks, the participants had to look at a screen, analyze what was going on, and answer a simple question about the action in as little time as possible (i.e. whether a clump of erratically moving dots was migrating right or left across the screen on average). In order to make sure the effect wasn't limited to just visual perception, the participants were also asked to complete an analogous task that was purely auditory.

Video games lead to faster decisions that are no less accurate

 

Haha, I saw this on another forum. The general consensus there was that the faster paced games didn't actually make one group faster, it was just that the Sims 2 retarded the other group.

 

Where is the control group at?

 

Yea the sims2 totally retarded any chance of legitimacy this study might have. I'd like to see it compared to people playing something more like A Civ game. Then i might believe it.

 

The sensationalized title is completely bogus and misleading, as usual when the media hears of any study or experiment that is conducted.

The group who played the sims.

 

That is not a true control. The control would be a group that didn't play anything at all. Then tested.

 

But you are forgetting that both groups were tested after and before playing the games. Because of this we have actually have two controls in this study. The sims group who played games but not of the right kind is the first control. The other is the fact that each person was tested before hand, making them controlled off of themselves. This experiment had all the control it needed.

Comparing the before and after yielded a positive result, but it could be a false positive if they did not have the sims group showing that it wasn't just the fact that they played games, but the fact that they engaged in a specific type of activity.

 

Bah, I am too tired to read the actual article.

 

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