Friday, April 18, 2008

Video Games and The Positive Effects

When video games and the real world become one, the human brain has collided the fantasy world and the real world and begins to lose contact with the real world. But all is not bad about that. Take for example the man who took his video game training from America's Army and used it to treat a injured person that was in a car accident. He was able to use the skills he learned from playing the game to help treat the injuries until paramedics came. Funny thing was that an actual certified U.S. Army soldier, with medical training, came to take over the video game players work he had already started.

Also other times really great things can come from losing contact from the real world. Take into example the study done in University of Rochester. People who played action video games for a few hours a day over the course of a month improved by about 20 percent in their ability to identify letters presented in clutter—a visual acuity test similar to ones used in regular ophthalmology clinics. This can be a very positive effects on people with bad vision like myself. I myself have been able to point things out from a far like people and locations while in a car. I can tell who is who just because of video games. If I have to snipe enemies in Call of Duty from a far as my men fight in the general area, I need to make sure I am not taking out my own men. This study has been proven, and I can back it up.

For those of you who are going into the medical field, video games are for you. In studies, it shows that playing video games can make a surgeon have less errors in the operation room. This can save lives and it is all due to video games. Research reports that, Researchers found that doctors who spent at least three hours a week playing video games made about 37 percent fewer mistakes in laparoscopic surgery and performed the task 27 percent faster than their counterparts who did not play video games. By that it makes a pretty dang good argument to make doctors have to play video games. This wold result in positive things for all of mankind.


Safer, Will. "Skills Learned in Video Game Help Man Treat Car Accident Victims." 18 01 2008 18 04 2008 .

2 comments:

Matt m said...

well for someone who likes video games it was probably a given that you would do thi topic. but its a good one because there is alot of violence in some games and some people do take that violence and actually do it in real life

Unknown said...

To some extent I do think that video games are good but we can't also ignore the negative side. If we play games for a limited time and carefully choose the game then video games are probably good for us.
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