University of Rochester has discovered an alarming phenomenon: Playing video games trains the brains of players to be more perceptive than the rest of us:
"According to the researchers, video game players develop a heightened sensitivity to what is going on around them, which improves a variety of general skills, for example: multitasking, driving, reading small print, keeping track of friends in a crowd, and navigating around town."
Gamers also become better at probabilistic inference, which is the ability to flexibly calculate probability based on whatever is going on.
That's great, but it still isn't going to get these guys laid anytime soon.... we're just going to KNOW we're not going to get laid.
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