Tell me what you play and I'll tell you how you work.

Alrik Fassbauer

Alrik Fassbauer

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Hello, everyone,

today I found in the local newspaper an article mentioning a scientific study, which claims that the kind of games one usually plays has influence on how one works.

The study had 2 kinds of games : Action games and Strategy games.

The result - according to the article - was that during "working tasks" (the article doesn't say what kind of tasks) the

- strategy players worked slowly, but precisely

- action players worked fast, but not precisely.

The study is reported to have been made by one "Wheaton College" in the U.S.A. , and been published by one scientific magazine called "Perception".

The abstract can be found here : http://www.perceptionweb.com/abstract.cgi?id=p6324

Alrik
 
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"- strategy players worked slowly, but precisely
- action players worked fast, but not precisely."

Wow, I'm no scientist but I could pretty much deduce the same thing.

Of course it doesn't really say anything concrete considering some of us like to play both types of games.

In fact, this almost smells of parody.
 
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Well, I don't think so. Scientists often need much longer to find what people call "a truth".
 
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Alrik Fassbauer said:
Well, I don't think so. Scientists often need much longer to find what people call "a truth".
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I'm saying those statements are common sense deduction, nothing really sceintific when you think about it.

It's like saying people who watch comedic films have a sense of humor :)

And like I said, that can't possibly apply to every gamer.
 
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What about TB RPG games? Surely the whole TB concept must say something about how we work too!!
 
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I play action games sometimes... and strategy games too... Does that mean I am fast and precise ?
 
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Relayer said:
I'm saying those statements are common sense deduction, nothing really sceintific when you think about it.
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Except that common sense is very often wrong.
 
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