09-14-2010, 08:28 PM
(09-14-2010, 02:05 PM)Jester Wrote:The Title of the original "Current Biology" article is: "Improved Probabilistic Inference as a General Learning Mechanism with Action Video Games." There is something wrong with the supplementary material link so I can't tell if WoW was involved at all.Quote:Only those who played fast-moving action video games such as "Call of Duty 2" and "Unreal Tournament" saw an improvement in their decision-making skills.
Yet the article is titled "Why World of Warcraft is good for you." Was "Why Unreal Tournament is good for you" too unsexy? Did this research actually say a single damn thing about WoW?
(09-14-2010, 02:05 PM)Jester Wrote: Did they even have a control group? I don't have access to the full article until it's a year old, so I can't check, but it sounds like their two group were "exciting" and "boring" games.They had people who didn't play games at all, people who didn't play and then were introduced to non-action games, and people who didn't play and were then introduced to action games. I presume that counts as a control group.