Monday, November 22, 2010
The Right Decision
Playing games could improve your decision-making
There is a lot of evidence that games are good for us.
In fact, it’s getting to the point where a small dose of online games (a few hours a week), is probably good for you.
Research from the University of Rochester seems to say so, and they have come to some interesting conclusions.
After dividing their test subjects into two groups, one was made to play action games while the other was made to play strategy games.
Both groups were then asked to make decisions on a number of tasks. In these tasks, participants had to look at a screen, analyze a situation, and answer a question as fast as possible.
The results: Action gamers made decisions up to 25% faster, while answering as many correct questions as the second group!
This means that playing online games isn’t a waste of time like many have claimed over the years.
In fact, this research points in the opposite direction, and it says playing a fast-paced game like Plants vs. Zombies can help boost your decision-making!
Of course, this doesn’t mean that one should suddenly be playing 80 hours of games a week. Just like everything else in life, playing games should be done in moderation.
Here is another artical on gamings.
Playing games could improve your decision-making
There is a lot of evidence that games are good for us.
In fact, it’s getting to the point where a small dose of online games (a few hours a week), is probably good for you.
Research from the University of Rochester seems to say so, and they have come to some interesting conclusions.
After dividing their test subjects into two groups, one was made to play action games while the other was made to play strategy games.
Both groups were then asked to make decisions on a number of tasks. In these tasks, participants had to look at a screen, analyze a situation, and answer a question as fast as possible.
The results: Action gamers made decisions up to 25% faster, while answering as many correct questions as the second group!
This means that playing online games isn’t a waste of time like many have claimed over the years.
In fact, this research points in the opposite direction, and it says playing a fast-paced game like Plants vs. Zombies can help boost your decision-making!
Of course, this doesn’t mean that one should suddenly be playing 80 hours of games a week. Just like everything else in life, playing games should be done in moderation.
Here is another artical on gamings.
what we could have been, 10:44 PM.
