VIDEO GAMES: can video games to researchers show ones ability, thought process to respond and calculate how long it takes someone to solve or beat the game?

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• CloversLucky 2011/12/13 17:45:50
  a. they might be able to show ones ability to response, and of course reflexe...

  

  hell yeah

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• redneck 2011/12/08 14:57:22
  a. they might be able to show ones ability to response, and of course reflexe...

  

  They use this type of stuff in the military for reflex actions,to speed up response time.

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• hari 2011/12/07 02:21:02
  b. no, probably wouldnt be able to test someones abilities in video games

  

  No its a passion for games and has nothing to do with creativity on subjects like research

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• Bob DiN 2011/12/05 22:40:26
  a. they might be able to show ones ability to response, and of course reflexe...

  

  It could be possible.

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• Carter 2011/12/05 21:42:13
  a. they might be able to show ones ability to response, and of course reflexe...

  

  +1

  I think problem solving and time management skills are also good to practice as well as measure with the right game.

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• stevegtexas@aol.com 2011/12/05 17:43:55 (edited)
  a. they might be able to show ones ability to response, and of course reflexe...

  

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  i was playing a hockey game on a friends phone today, and it reminded me of how quick or how slow it takes me to learn the tricks of the progressive game. it is the hockey game on the new samsung phones...... pretty neat game, involving thinking and memory skills and of course reflexes. (kind of like PONG when i was a kid, but better.
  
  

  

  

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• sjalan 2011/12/05 17:12:49
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  Acutally back in the 1940's and 1950's the US government had a secret research group that did nothing BUT play games as part of an attempt to find problem solvers. Chess, mahjong and of all things dominos were the most popular for testing rapid responses to visual puzzle solving.

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• stevegt... to sjalan 2011/12/05 17:21:21
  

  thats pretty neat.

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• sjalan to stevegt... 2011/12/05 17:26:27
  

  Yeah they used to teach the "spys" how to take in an entire field of view within a single 3 second glance and then pick out a specific section of the picture in their minds and see if they saw an irregularity about the picture. They went through 1000's just to find a few very good people to do this kind of work.
  
  Pattern recognition has always been a special thing for code breaking. The competitions for Rubics Cube were also used to find new potential code breakers today.

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