So guess what? Turns out that some one has confirmed that which I always suspected to be true. Computer games lead to faster decision making! Awesome.
Cognitive scientists from the University of Rochester have discovered that playing action video games trains people to make the right decisions faster. The researchers found that video game players develop a heightened sensitivity to what is going on around them, and this benefit doesn't just make them better at playing video games, but improves a wide variety of general skills that can help with everyday activities like multitasking, driving, reading small print, keeping track of friends in a crowd, and navigating around town.
That's from an article on Science Daily today. Pretty sweet right. This seems to be one of those things that I would have thought was true. But my own experience is not evidence of course. You have to play fast paced action games for the effect to occur. Games like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Which just happens to be my favey.
Seems to make sense right. I mean those games require you to keep up and make quick decisions based on torrents of information while ignoring distractions. And the consequences of bad decisions are character death and the associated computer rage. Especially when your on that hard level and there is that one bit where you just can't get to the next check point and you keep dying and you've tried it so many times and in so many different ways and you JUST KEEP ON DYING RAAAAAAAA!
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Never mind. I'm back now. I think that this idea merits further thought in the area of personnel training. It could be used to train people who need the ability to make fast accurate decisions in situations where there may be lots of distractions and conflicting information. Like pilots. Any way. This is just something kool that I wanted to share with you all.
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