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FYRE
New Zealand314 Posts
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CrushDog5
Canada207 Posts
On September 13 2011 10:54 sephirotharg wrote: ... I hope that the study will be published someplace I can find it.... I'll post the pdf on my lab webpage if you want to read the original (though bear in mind that publishing takes months, and sometimes even years). I'll write up something aimed at the SC2 player and post here and on the SkillCraft website, too. | ||
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antas
Indonesia300 Posts
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Ridiculisk
Australia191 Posts
Good luck Prof. CrushDog5! For Science! | ||
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sephirotharg
United States91 Posts
If I had a replay to upload, I would, but all of mine were lost during the transition to a new computer and I haven't played much since. I'm thinking I'll snatch some time from my studies and play a game so that I can upload it. All in the interest of research, mind you!  | ||
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sOvrn
United States678 Posts
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CrushDog5
Canada207 Posts
On September 13 2011 12:52 FYRE wrote: If a kid was made to write an essay on Starcraft 2, I think the parent should go into psychiatric care. I don't understand. Is there something about writing an essays which is harmful? I can't believe you mean that. What about the classic "What did you do on your summer vacation?"; couldn't that be about StarCraft? That would be OK, right? If so, if you accept that someone might write a sensible, useful, even educational essay about StarCraft, then you must accept that the act writing about StarCraft itself isn't horribly damaging to someone. Yet you suggest that having children write about StarCraft, perhaps as a way of aiding analysis, encouraging improvement, or reflecting on successes, is quite literally insane. I think you have nicely demonstrated why eSports faces serious obstacles to widespread acceptance. Even someone writing on an SC2 community website thinks it's not an important or useful activity! But, I note, you have provided no argument, no cause for believing that SC2 is a base, low and demeaning activity that we would do well to avoid. If you want to convince me to take your position, you must sway me with ideas and reasons. Give me something to sink my teeth into, please. Maybe if you wrote 500 words on why assigning an essay on StarCraft 2 requires medical treatment we could have something to discuss, some way of learning from each other; but with only a one meager, embarrassingly small line, I feel like I've been flashed. Perhaps it's not essays on StarCraft, but tiny, undeveloped, and thoughtless minority opinion posts that are the base, low and demeaning activity that we'd all do well to avoid. | ||
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antas
Indonesia300 Posts
I'm wondering for quite some time about the RTS game skill and age relation. Since you're doing this research, is it possible for you to give us the graph that showing that? I read this thread: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=265101, and I believe that that kind of information will interest some people, at least some old guy like me, lol. I think it will hard to draw a conclusion since most likely the older we are, the less time we have. But at least we can see some picture. If we can compare the similar play time will be much better. Cheers | ||
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Setev
Malaysia390 Posts
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ZackAttack
United States884 Posts
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Synwave
United States2803 Posts
Please update more or with links to anything published from this, I would be fascinated to read anything that comes from this project! | ||
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dD3s
Germany130 Posts
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Nizaris
Belgium2230 Posts
On September 13 2011 14:06 CrushDog5 wrote: I don't understand. don't even try. Clearly a troll | ||
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Iggnite
Canada288 Posts
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Tanag
Canada204 Posts
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CrushDog5
Canada207 Posts
On September 13 2011 15:07 antas wrote: Hi CrushDog5, I'm wondering for quite some time about the RTS game skill and age relation. Since you're doing this research, is it possible for you to give us the graph that showing that? I read this thread: http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=265101, and I believe that that kind of information will interest some people, at least some old guy like me, lol. I think it will hard to draw a conclusion since most likely the older we are, the less time we have. But at least we can see some picture. If we can compare the similar play time will be much better. Cheers Something along those lines would be easy to do. We could do an analysis that holds factors play time out of the equation, to see if Age influences League independent of play time. Thanks for the suggestion. | ||
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CrushDog5
Canada207 Posts
On September 13 2011 15:48 Setev wrote: Hey guys, on the subject of expertise and getting better at Starcraft, check out this book: "The Talent Code" by Daniel Coyle, who is also the author of bestseller "Lance Armstrong's War". I'll check it out. I hadn't heard of that one. | ||
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CrushDog5
Canada207 Posts
Yeah, I know. Sigh. The unsubstantiated assumption that most things are better use of time than gaming is the key problem, though. All the recent press about eSports is promising, but it all has the flavor of Novelty News:, " Oh look, there are some people who think that video games are something to watch and cheer, isn't that funny!" That's one of the reasons I think SkillCraft can be helpful. | ||
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Ownos
United States2147 Posts
On September 13 2011 07:51 CrushDog5 wrote: It's the mix that matters, as you say. My point is that every parent I know would have no problem forcing their kids to go run around outside, or practice piano, or read a book, but none of them would insist that their children play a video game. I insist that my parent play video games.  Actually, aren't the elderly encouraged to socialize and play games to keep their minds sharp? Checkers and card games not uncommon in senior centers. Or the Wii. | ||
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.MadHaT
Canada76 Posts
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