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Video games help increase decision making?

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yourwhiteshadow
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States442 Posts
February 06 2011 23:15 GMT
#1
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=20826

So apparently if you play CoD MW2 and Unreal tournament you can make better/faster decisions than if you played Sims 2. What about Starcraft 2...what a lame study

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Trowabarton756
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States870 Posts
February 06 2011 23:23 GMT
#2
God I hate how they waste money on this....who would of thought that having to make decisions "under pressure" versus at your own pace makes you a better decision maker..../facepalm...imagine if they spent this money instead on some disease research...
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Karliath
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States2214 Posts
February 06 2011 23:36 GMT
#3
Of all the games...why Call of Duty 2?
Shana
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Indonesia1814 Posts
February 06 2011 23:47 GMT
#4
Call of Duty, a motherfucking FPS? Why not BroodWar or at least WC3 when your decision really matters?
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thoraxe
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
United States1449 Posts
February 07 2011 00:09 GMT
#5
cuz consoles are more popular than PCs, and there are more CoD players than SC2. Besides, both games require reflexes and quick thinking to manage your way through situations.
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Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-07 00:21:12
February 07 2011 00:14 GMT
#6
I don't think it was a bad idea to focus the study on shooters per se, but I wish they did SC as well =[
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elmizzt
Profile Joined February 2010
United States3309 Posts
February 07 2011 00:17 GMT
#7
Honestly, the more they leave SC out of studies like this, the happier I will be.
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LoLAdriankat
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States4307 Posts
February 07 2011 00:31 GMT
#8
On February 07 2011 09:09 thoraxe wrote:
cuz consoles are more popular than PCs, and there are more CoD players than SC2. Besides, both games require reflexes and quick thinking to manage your way through situations.

Nope. Call of Duty has almost no decision making. About 90% of the kills they get is from being lucky.

If you want an FPS with real decision making, try Quake Live.

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fush
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada563 Posts
February 07 2011 01:16 GMT
#9
funny how you guys are so quick to put down a study you know nothing about. the bavelier lab has been churning out high impact papers on this subject for years, so they're doing something right that has the government giving them grant money. they just happen to choose their research on "action" video games - and by their interpretation that's general FPS. if you actually READ their papers, you can see that they have not just CoD, MW2, and Unreal, but Quake and many many others as well. SC is among their survey results as well, but obviously they don't have it under "action" since it's not FPS - though we can of course argue about that.

either way, just because their study doesn't use our game doesn't mean it's a bad study. they also don't have just studies on "decision making" but also attention, visual responsiveness, and other behavioural stuff that isn't covered in this rather badly written "news" report.


On February 07 2011 08:23 Trowabarton756 wrote:
God I hate how they waste money on this....who would of thought that having to make decisions "under pressure" versus at your own pace makes you a better decision maker..../facepalm...imagine if they spent this money instead on some disease research...


please. stop talking. that's not even close to what they're trying to say, so before you make uninformed statements, do yourself a favor and actually read what they write.
floor exercise
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
Canada5847 Posts
February 07 2011 01:30 GMT
#10
Playing video games is a pretty bad decision to begin with
quirinus
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Croatia2489 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-07 03:33:40
February 07 2011 03:32 GMT
#11
On February 07 2011 10:16 fush wrote:
funny how you guys are so quick to put down a study you know nothing about. the bavelier lab has been churning out high impact papers on this subject for years, so they're doing something right that has the government giving them grant money. they just happen to choose their research on "action" video games - and by their interpretation that's general FPS. if you actually READ their papers, you can see that they have not just CoD, MW2, and Unreal, but Quake and many many others as well. SC is among their survey results as well, but obviously they don't have it under "action" since it's not FPS - though we can of course argue about that.

either way, just because their study doesn't use our game doesn't mean it's a bad study. they also don't have just studies on "decision making" but also attention, visual responsiveness, and other behavioural stuff that isn't covered in this rather badly written "news" report.


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On February 07 2011 08:23 Trowabarton756 wrote:
God I hate how they waste money on this....who would of thought that having to make decisions "under pressure" versus at your own pace makes you a better decision maker..../facepalm...imagine if they spent this money instead on some disease research...


please. stop talking. that's not even close to what they're trying to say, so before you make uninformed statements, do yourself a favor and actually read what they write.


Also, he should learn not to underestimate and belittle studies just because he doesn't like them and thinks they're unimportant, because, guess what, they're not unimportant. For starters, they can provide a lot of help to other researches that are trying to find cures/help for, let's say, "people with decision making problems" (including physical brain/body problems). Not to mention other studies.

So stop and think before you hit the post button, ***it's in the 10 COMMANDMENTS*** that you said you're going to follow by signing up for an account on this site.

Related to the op, that's an interesting study, wish I had the whole paper to read it, not just this news.
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meegrean
Profile Joined May 2008
Thailand7699 Posts
February 07 2011 06:24 GMT
#12
Maybe faster decisions, but "better"?
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InFdude
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Bulgaria619 Posts
February 07 2011 07:25 GMT
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