Another Study Shows That Action/Violent Video Games Improve Vision
from the and-yet... dept
Nearly six years ago, we wrote about a study showing that playing video games can help improve your vision, and now there's another study showing that such video games can help improve vision -- specifically contrast sensitivity, which is noted to be "important in situations such as driving at night, or in conditions of poor visibility." But, of course, rather than paying attention to all that, we get stories about how all violent video games must be banned.
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Not quite so good
The sims or tetris are full of bright colours. But if someone mods the sims into a bright colourful murder simulator it's not going to help improve vision all of a sudden because its violent.
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Re: Not quite so good
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Jack, is that you?
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Now my murderous rages make sense!
Those who think violence is bad just aren't seeing things objectively yet!
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From the how-carefully-do-you-read-dept.
"This is a small study, showing a small effect, but it was carefully done, and merits further investigation."
I was listening to the radio this morning where they interviewed a scientist over the meaning of the improvement (after the radio used the intro line "Video game playing improves eyesight"). After providing a brief summary of the study, the scientist pointed out that the improvement was "very small."
I believe the article speaks for itself. Yes, there was a SMALL effect that merits further investigation, but it is a little early to hold a ticker tape parade for the improvements in vision from playing video games.
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Violence
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As a dad
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