Do you think playing video games makes you smarter?
By Valce1
@Valce1 (173)
Canada
September 10, 2007 5:54pm CST
According to some research studies, doctors who frequently play video games make fewer mistakes. Others report children who play video games casually do better than students who do not.
The thinking is that playing video games teaches you to think within certain system constraints, and that helps you learn system constraints faster (like the constraints of the human body, or mathematics).
What do you think? Does playing games actually make you smarter? Or is it more correlation than causation? [I.E. smart people like to play video games]
Both seem equally valid...
1 response
@horia_profit (433)
• Romania
11 Sep 07
Video games are usually made to amuse and to for spent time in front of your computer if you are boring or you don't know what to do with your free time,but i guess that theese games can helps children to be more smarts or to understand more easly things that can happens in real life but theese games can affect the health of children,so they are good but in the same time can be noxious
@horia_profit (433)
• Romania
11 Sep 07
hey do you heard about alpha pups?is a video game about an alien virus made by a company,how do they make kids want it?siple:they give it to the coolest kids they can find and let them do the marketing and maybe this can make that kids smarter but there are many video games that can be outfull for kids so....
@Valce1 (173)
• Canada
13 Sep 07
Yeah... heard about the same marketing strategy for Nike and a whole bunch of other 'hip' products.
Great for the folks who get it!
... but I don't buy stuff I see my friends use :P We're different people, and buying the same things detracts from that individuality.
