Do Videogame Skills Transfer To Real Life?

macshune writes "Lately, I've been wanting to try my hand at firearms, just to see if a youth spent playing Duck Hunt and an adolescence playing FPS games has given me a preternatural shooting ability. This got me thinking, do videogame skills, both reaction-based and of other kinds, transfer to real life? My friends that play D&D are good storytellers, but do games like Counter-Strike build teamwork skills? Inquiring minds want to know!"

Comments

Re:Laser Tag

[spooje]

290fps?? You candyass start playing outdoors so you can crank it up to 400fps!

Re:Yes they do

[Frnknstn]

Argh, why do I bother with this shit... Flamebait? More like 'harsh reality.'

Admittidly, my last post did miss out one or two skills CS could teach you. Like team-killing, for example.

Seriously, has whoever modded me down ever played CS online? What leadership skills could you possibly learn from CS? It is true that CS clans have leaders, but that has nothing to do with the game. Now, it is possible that the social interactions one experiences by being in a clan may improve your leadership skills, but that is just same as every other social activity, and has nothing to do with the game itself.

L33t mouse skillz do not translate to real life coordination. At least not gross motor control, which is what is normaly understood by the term. In theory, mouse use could help with fine motor control, but only in the specialised field of mouse-movement. Even then the limitations of an underdeveloped gross motor control system would limit the accuracy.

Get yourself a biological foundations / neuropsychology textbook before the next time you mod me down.