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	[quote name="laudablepuss"][quote name="I need clarification"]<A HREF= "http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=68&ncid=68&e=1&u=/nyt/20030529/ts_nyt/video_game_killing_builds_visual_skills__researchers_report">Read all about it, if your eyes still work, Wagner James Au!</A> [quote]"We were really surprised," Dr. Bavelier said, adding that as little as 10 hours of play substantially increased visual skills among novice players. "You get better at a lot of things, not just the game," she said.[/quote] Things like scoring with hot chicks?? [quote]"Please, keep doing your homework," said Dr. Bavelier, the mother of 6-year-old twins and a 2-year-old.[/quote] Dr. Bavelier was wearing a lovely Donna Karan blouse under her white lab coat and drove a Ford minivan. Her husband is a professor of comparitive literature, and the two of them met at a faculty retreat held the first year Dr. Bavelier started at Rochester. [quote]Dr. Jeremy Wolfe, the director of the Visual Attention Laboratory at Harvard Medical School (news - web sites), who was not involved in the study, said he was intrigued at the idea that "socially dubious games might improve something like general intelligence." "It might give every 14-year-old something to tell his parents," Dr. Wolfe said. " `Hey, don't make me study. Give me another grenade.' " [/quote] "Give me another grenade?" Nice! Dr. Wolfe 0wnz! [quote]Still, he noted that an increased capacity for visual attention was helpful in tasks as diverse as flying, driving, radiology and airport screening.[/quote] Also: Shooting up your school, driving the Ferrari you win by being Thresh, and keeping an eye on the fry station while simultaneously refilling the ice dispenser if you're every other professional gamer. [quote]They carried out four experiments on undergraduates, all of them male because no female shooter game fans could be found on campus.[/quote] Also because they didn't know any girls.[/quote] God damn you're an idiot.[/quote]