Researcher Daphne Bavelier is back with more videogame research. Once again, the study used The Sims 2, Call Of Duty 2, and Unreal Tournament.
The results of this study showed that those who played the action games made quicker decisions:
“In the problem-solving exercise, the action-game players made decisions 25 percent faster than the strategy group, while answering the same number of questions correctly.”
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It seems that the Matthew Effect shows up in the diagnosis of ADHD.
If you have read Outliers, this shouldn’t come as a surprise.
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Interesting piece in the New York Times on a phenomenon in China known as “human-flesh search” where Internet users work together to humiliate or otherwise punish people. As the Times says:
It’s crowd-sourced detective work, pursued online — with offline results.
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