29th May 2003, 12:22 PM
Interesting study. I'd like to know how this study was conducted though, just like I would for any of the negative tests regarding gaming. Best not to have a double standard.
Should this have proven to be a good scientific test, then there ya go. I've always thought that interactive entertainment most assuredly would be more stimulating mentally than passive entertainment. Maybe next they should judge someone's problem solving skills before and after playing RPGs and war strategy games, though how such a test would be conducted I'm not sure. After that, test someone's ability to do those SAT shape questions after playing various puzzle games for 5 hours.
Fact is, kids have been pretending to kill each other long before video games. Cowboys and Indians, Ninjas, Soldiers, little outside games they just MADE UP on the spot. Kids are just plain violent by nature, and that seems to have nurtured.
Should this have proven to be a good scientific test, then there ya go. I've always thought that interactive entertainment most assuredly would be more stimulating mentally than passive entertainment. Maybe next they should judge someone's problem solving skills before and after playing RPGs and war strategy games, though how such a test would be conducted I'm not sure. After that, test someone's ability to do those SAT shape questions after playing various puzzle games for 5 hours.
Fact is, kids have been pretending to kill each other long before video games. Cowboys and Indians, Ninjas, Soldiers, little outside games they just MADE UP on the spot. Kids are just plain violent by nature, and that seems to have nurtured.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)