That's not what he actually said: "they want to believe, they'll probably find evidence, just like the scientists who fell hook line and sinker for Uri Geller".
So you're saying you're going to choose to disbelieve research that you don't want to believe in, on the basis of a purely hypothetical scenario for which there is no evidence?
Actually challenging tasks do not necessarily require or enhance cognitive flexibility. More to the point it's not obvious that maps requiring the player address two player and two enemy bases at once would have such a large effect compared to single-base designs.
Cognitive flexiblity isn't a skill, it's a rather generic mental capability associated with improved performance in many tasks. Therefore activities which improve it are very important to research. Particular as this study concluded that certain kinds of level design provide larger improvements.
Right, it's obvious in hindsight. And on PVR apps, you'd think they'd just sign everyone. I've got a Youview box and if they thing I'm going to sign up for NowTV just because they've not got a Lovefilm app they're up a gum tree. One of the things I like about my 360 as a media box (not a long list admittedly) is that almost everyone is on board.
Are you saying you wouldn't watch it, or you'd pirate it for convenience? 'Cause watching a pirated copy has the sample "plugging things in" hassles as everything else you've just outlined.
Every single piece of hardware and software they used is referenced and properly linked to in the source article. I think it's just their inherent nerdiness and/or nostalgia about the tools they were using at the time. Sample paragraph:
At the time (this was mid-1999), my computer was a Mac PowerPC tower (Blue and White PowerMac G3). Although a guitar player, I was dabbling in MIDI, primarily for drums and pads. I was big-time into the various extensions of General MIDI, as I wanted something fairly standard, and had settled on Yamaha's XG extensions, as they seemed the most rational and versatile, and I had bought a Yamaha MU90R on advice from a friend (Tom O'Brien). I had then purchased this PCI card for the tower called a Yamaha SW1000XG, which had a 64-voice XG chipset..,...and it goes on like this.
I'm feeling nostalgic for the times when other people's phones that just gave you a dim green glow in your peripheral vision and not a glaring white search light.
That's a bit rich coming from someone making an anonymous comment on an internet article, which is about the intellectual equivalent of a vending machine breakfast. I say this as a past-master at both activities.
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Conversely I'm sure any protection-of-privacy act would be called P.U.L.S.I.N.G. B.A.L.L.B.A.G.
Except they're also reading the diaries of everyone who visits the White House, too. Especially the ones who are just tourists.
That's not what he actually said: "they want to believe, they'll probably find evidence, just like the scientists who fell hook line and sinker for Uri Geller".
U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. act. Never forget that they added insult to injury by giving that awful act a horribly contrived acronym as a name.
No, the U.S.A. doesn't stand for United States of America.
What a cliffhanger.
So you're saying you're going to choose to disbelieve research that you don't want to believe in, on the basis of a purely hypothetical scenario for which there is no evidence?
Bravo.
You preferred PLoS ONE?
Durr, I dunno AC, maybe the study wasn't about how playing Starcraft makes you good at Starcraft.
That's a terrible analogy.
That's like saying that you can't call a bobcat a "fast, strong cat" because cheetahs exist.
Actually challenging tasks do not necessarily require or enhance cognitive flexibility. More to the point it's not obvious that maps requiring the player address two player and two enemy bases at once would have such a large effect compared to single-base designs.
Cognitive flexiblity isn't a skill, it's a rather generic mental capability associated with improved performance in many tasks. Therefore activities which improve it are very important to research. Particular as this study concluded that certain kinds of level design provide larger improvements.
If this was a study about how recreational walking increases health would you be telling people they should be off weight-lifting instead?
Right, it's obvious in hindsight. And on PVR apps, you'd think they'd just sign everyone. I've got a Youview box and if they thing I'm going to sign up for NowTV just because they've not got a Lovefilm app they're up a gum tree. One of the things I like about my 360 as a media box (not a long list admittedly) is that almost everyone is on board.
I figured there was a missing link somewhere in the argument. Thanks.
Are you saying you wouldn't watch it, or you'd pirate it for convenience? 'Cause watching a pirated copy has the sample "plugging things in" hassles as everything else you've just outlined.
If it works on Three I dare say it's good on most other UK carriers as well. We don't exactly have a lot of incompatible frequency bands.
There's a great compendium of Snake variants called "snakes on a cartesian plane" that might be relevant to your interests.
I like to exercise my first amendment right to set up humorous putdowns involving vending machine breakfasts.
Ah, but that wouldn't be accurate. It tastes like the very apotheosis of cake. I just don't know what the hell it actually is.
Every single piece of hardware and software they used is referenced and properly linked to in the source article. I think it's just their inherent nerdiness and/or nostalgia about the tools they were using at the time. Sample paragraph:
At the time (this was mid-1999), my computer was a Mac PowerPC tower (Blue and White PowerMac G3). Although a guitar player, I was dabbling in MIDI, primarily for drums and pads. I was big-time into the various extensions of General MIDI, as I wanted something fairly standard, and had settled on Yamaha's XG extensions, as they seemed the most rational and versatile, and I had bought a Yamaha MU90R on advice from a friend (Tom O'Brien). I had then purchased this PCI card for the tower called a Yamaha SW1000XG, which had a 64-voice XG chipset.., ...and it goes on like this.
Or maybe cause you're not sure you'll feel your phone go off and you don't give enough of a crap about it to change it from the default?
I'm feeling nostalgic for the times when other people's phones that just gave you a dim green glow in your peripheral vision and not a glaring white search light.
Something almost exactly unlike cake.
That's a bit rich coming from someone making an anonymous comment on an internet article, which is about the intellectual equivalent of a vending machine breakfast. I say this as a past-master at both activities.