This article in Wired magazine puts forth a theory that the rising IQ test scores of the population may relate to our brains having to deal with the challenges of high tech gizmos, such as video games. Now, convince your parents of that when it's time for homework.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.05/flynn_pr.html
That's a really interesting fact
now i have an excuse to buy games all the time lol
Computer games doesn't help me, they distract me, and intelligence isn't worth much by itself.
Has anyone ever played Brain Age? I thought it was a fun game, thought it's a bit annoying when the DS fails to hear you correctly.
The Donkey Kong Country trilogy from the SNES era was actually prasied for the amount of different style of puzzles and games included. DKC2 and 3 had a plethoria of bonus rooms to find and even after all these years, I still find new bits I never found before!
I've never been very fond of video games because they are too noisy for me but it's also the case that they came in when I was a teenager and back then, girls playing those games was very much frowned on. So I didn't get interested in them but more in board games such as Scrabble.
It wouldn't surprise me if some of the older games had more to them than first met the eye.
Scrabble is obviously very good for building vocbulary and language skills. Computer games are very good for building up focus and reaction (especially fast action FPS games where your character dies if you fail to respond to an enemy about to shoot you).
On another thought - am I the only one who just isn't interested in gaming these days?
I used to spend hours playing on the PS2 or playing Doom or Half life. Now I can't remember the last time I played any games.
On another thought - am I the only one who just isn't interested in gaming these days?
I paid $69 for Pong in the 70s and am still bitter. I never bought another video game
That was a lot of money in those days.
Wow! I'd better hop onto my PS2! *sproing*
I didn't think galloping about as a Stormtrooper was responsible for my intelligence ;p
This article in Wired magazine puts forth a theory that the rising IQ test scores of the population may relate to our brains having to deal with the challenges of high tech gizmos, such as video games. Now, convince your parents of that when it's time for homework.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.05/flynn_pr.html
Well that's bollocks, I was a video game addict until about age 15, then my interests diverged a bit, but anyway my IQ score has always been pathetic; anywhere and everywhere I go, I've never found one person tell me they had a lower score than mine, on or offline.
And that sucks.
I've never been very fond of video games because they are too noisy for me but it's also the case that they came in when I was a teenager and back then, girls playing those games was very much frowned on. So I didn't get interested in them but more in board games such as Scrabble.
It wouldn't surprise me if some of the older games had more to them than first met the eye.
I would say that video games are probably healthier than smoking, at least.
Although if you smoked a few cigarettes before an IQ test, you'd probably score higher than if you hadn't.