A bit of "anecdata", as William Davies puts it, but one I obviously like: computer game players make the best surgeons.
Researchers with Beth Israel and the National Institute on Media and the Family at Iowa State University found that doctors who spent at least three hours a week playing video games made about 37 percent fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery and performed the task 27 percent faster than their counterparts who did not play video games.The idea that video game play improves hand/eye coordination has long been a cliche among defenders of the recreation, but this research gives some substance to those claims.
According to one of the researchers, this study “landmarks the arrival of Generation X into medicine.“ They are working to develop a special game which surgeons can do.
Recent Comments