Gaming not clinically addicting, helps fluid intelligence

No, I don’t think that gaming makes you more able to discern between “adult beverages”, pop or teas… but at the end of a news story that is about a couple of months old now, there is a snippet of interest:

However, Peterson said video games can actually be beneficial to a child’s development and their ability to solve complex problems.

“There’s good evidence they raise fluid intelligence,” said Peterson. “And it’s proved very difficult for psychologists to find educational processes that reliably increase fluid intelligence, which is, by the way, a very good predictor of later-life success.”

This is another bit of fuel for and against gaming. One more is this post by Ed, pondering if gamers can be productive people.

To my mind, this is more about moderation, something that in our now “EXTREME” world is something that is very hard to come across.


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