The company I work for http://www.bluefinrobotics.com/ is looking for both Software engineers and Operations engineers. Being a software person for us means about 75-90% desk work and 10-25% work at sea (although usually not away from home for more then a few weeks a year). Being an ops person requires a great deal of traveling and is very hands on.
Unfortunately, you will notice a decided lack of a control group in the study. One might argue that the entire populace is an implicit control group; however, that would only reveal one's ignorance. First and foremost, we should recognize the social class to which these kids most likely belong. Any child who plays video games 18 hours a week probably owns a computer (or at least his family does). Thus his family is most likely to be upper-middle class or higher, socially speaking. While this is not true for every kid there is most like a very strong statistical correlation. Now we should recognize the fact that children of such classes are already fairly likely to go to college and get a better than average job anyway
Similarly the do not mention any control group for how like situated children, score on the same battery of test. Thus, the finds could have just as easily been summarized as "well off kids found to do better in life" Of course no one wants to hear that...
Towards the end of the article explaining how the industry would watermark DVDs, "Linticular Holograms" are briefly mentioned. Google didn't turn up any useful results on what they were. Does any body here know well enough to explain it?
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The company I work for http://www.bluefinrobotics.com/ is looking for both Software engineers and Operations engineers. Being a software person for us means about 75-90% desk work and 10-25% work at sea (although usually not away from home for more then a few weeks a year). Being an ops person requires a great deal of traveling and is very hands on.
Unfortunately, you will notice a decided lack of a control group in the study. One might argue that the entire populace is an implicit control group; however, that would only reveal one's ignorance. First and foremost, we should recognize the social class to which these kids most likely belong. Any child who plays video games 18 hours a week probably owns a computer (or at least his family does). Thus his family is most likely to be upper-middle class or higher, socially speaking. While this is not true for every kid there is most like a very strong statistical correlation. Now we should recognize the fact that children of such classes are already fairly likely to go to college and get a better than average job anyway
Similarly the do not mention any control group for how like situated children, score on the same battery of test. Thus, the finds could have just as easily been summarized as "well off kids found to do better in life" Of course no one wants to hear that...
Towards the end of the article explaining how the industry would watermark DVDs, "Linticular Holograms" are briefly mentioned. Google didn't turn up any useful results on what they were. Does any body here know well enough to explain it?