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https://nypost.com/2017/11/15/kids-who-play-video-games-are-smarter-study/

Kids who are good at video games tend to be more intelligent than those who just play outside, according to a new study.

Researchers have discovered a link between young peoples ability to perform well at two games like League of Legends and Call of Duty and high levels of intelligence.

Studies conducted at the Digital Creativity Labs (DC Labs) at York University found that some action strategy video games can act similar to IQ tests.

The researchers stressed that the studies have no bearing on questions such as whether playing computer games makes young people smarter or otherwise.

They said they simply establish a correlation between skill at certain online games of strategy and intelligence.

The researchers focused on Multiplayer Online Battle Arenas (MOBAs) action strategy games that usually involve two opposing teams of up to five individuals as well as multiplayer First Person Shooter games.

These are two of the most popular types of computer game and are regularly played by hundreds of millions worldwide.

Researchers from Yorks Departments of Psychology and Computer Science carried out two studies.The first examined a group of subjects who were highly experienced in League of Legends one of the most popular strategic video games in the world with millions of players.

In the study, the researchers observed a correlation between performance in the strategic game League of Legends and performance in standard paper-and-pencil intelligence tests.

The second study analysed data from four games: two MOBAs League of Legends and Defense of the Ancients 2 (Dota 2) and two First Person Shooters Destiny and Battlefield 3.

First Person Shooters (FPS) are games involving shooting enemies and other targets, with the player viewing the action as though through the eyes of the character they are controlling.

In the second study, the researchers found that for large groups consisting of thousands of players, performance in MOBAs and IQ behave in similar ways as players get older.

But the effect was not found for First Person Shooters, where performance declined after the teens. The researchers say the correlation between ability at action strategy video games such as League of Legends and Defense of the Ancients 2 and a high IQ is similar to the correlation seen in other more traditional strategy games such as chess.

Study corresponding author Professor Alex Wade said: Games such as League of Legends and DOTA 2 are complex, socially-interactive and intellectually demanding.

Our research would suggest that your performance in these games can be a measure of intelligence.

Research in the past has pointed to the fact that people who are good at strategy games such as chess tend to score highly at IQ tests.
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correlation, not causation.

Too bad you're wrong because videogames are an invention of the devil meant to rot out your brains and brainwash you.
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I love the new trend of studies that affirm everyone's shitty life habits as a form of higher intelligence

Videogames cost money, so kids that own videogames tend to come from families that have some form of disposable income, and families with disposable income also tend to pay closer attention to their kid's school work and grades.

So very much correlation, not causation.
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It takes skills to play FPS, all that twitchy aiming and not even once looking at the controls

always alert looking at the mini map with 1 eye, the other eye around the corner

seeing my nephew sometimes makes me wonder if they are Aliens
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kinda makes sense. hectic gameplay with quick decision making could lead to more connections in the brain being formed at a young age
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Kids who are good at video games tend to be more intelligent than those who just play outside, according to a new study.
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They said they simply establish a correlation between skill at certain online games of strategy and intelligence.

Then we need strategic games like those in video games, but outside!
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K181 posted...

Videogames cost money, so kids that own videogames tend to come from families that have some form of disposable income, and families with disposable income also tend to pay closer attention to their kid's school work and grades.

So very much correlation, not causation.

LoL is free
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Can confirm
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