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I heard the guy interviewed on NPR a few months ago. Some of his premises are intriguing. However, IQ isn't everything. I haven't read the book, but I'll probably get around to it eventually, even though I'm pretty major anti-video game and anti-TV. Marc My website
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I heard the guy interviewed on NPR a few months ago. Some of his premises are intriguing. However, IQ isn't everything. I haven't read the book, but I'll probably get around to it eventually, even though I'm pretty major anti-video game and anti-TV. Marc My website
Latest Articles: Object Comparer String HelpersMarc Clifton wrote: I haven't read the book I'm going to wait till the movie comes out cheers, Chris Maunder
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Marc Clifton wrote: I haven't read the book I'm going to wait till the movie comes out cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: I'm going to wait till the movie comes out LOL! Marc My website
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Marc Clifton wrote: I haven't read the book I'm going to wait till the movie comes out cheers, Chris Maunder
Chris Maunder wrote: I'm going to wait till the movie comes out I'm going to wait for you to give me a synopsis of the movie after it comes out. :) _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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I heard the guy interviewed on NPR a few months ago. Some of his premises are intriguing. However, IQ isn't everything. I haven't read the book, but I'll probably get around to it eventually, even though I'm pretty major anti-video game and anti-TV. Marc My website
Latest Articles: Object Comparer String HelpersMarc Clifton wrote: I heard the guy interviewed on NPR a few months ago. Some of his premises are intriguing. However, IQ isn't everything. I haven't read the book, but I'll probably get around to it eventually, even though I'm pretty major anti-video game and anti-TV. Well, he doesn't just go on about IQ in the book. His main point is that popular culture isn't in a race to the bottom for simplicity and mental laziness as is commonly thought, because the trends are actually for more structurally sophisticated games and television which can require a lot more thought and mental analysis than the TV and games of previous decades. His most extensive comparison TV-wise was probably comparing Dragnet>Starksy and Hutch>Hill Street Blues>The Sopranos - where looking at how the episodes are structured around different plots reveals how much more attention you need to pay to follow and unravel them in recent years. The main point about video-games is how they force the player to figure out what the rules (the "physics", if you like) of the game really are and how they can be manipulated - traditional board games don't do that as the rules are clear from the start. Of course, don't think this doesn't mean that reading and suchlike shouldn't be encouraged - the book makes it clear it should be (after a few loops around considering why this should be so, including some satire about how this new fangled book reading is destroying a youth of video-game players). It's just pointing out that any reasonably good tv show or video game isn't the waste of time people frequently think they are.
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"[...] video games, from Tetris to The Sims to Grand Theft Auto, have been shown to raise IQ scores and develop cognitive abilities [...]" - Absolutely![^]
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