14 DAY TRIAL // It's not exactly brain surgery finding out that playing games improves coordination, reflexes, and thinking in perspective, but it's worth talking about it again because this time, there was a different result to the study. I'm talking about a study carried on at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York, which clearly shows that doctors who had played games in their youth years, for at least 3 hours a day, are better at their job.
According to Douglas Gentile, the brain behind the study, surgeons made "37 percent fewer errors, performed 27 percent faster and scored 42 percent better in the test of surgical skills." So playing games is good, right? Wrong...! If you'd have paid more attention to what the study actually says, you'd have seen that only three hours of play a week are indicated. All, right then, what happens if I play, let's say...9 hours a week? Well, other surveys Douglas Gentile attended to showed that kids who play games nine hours a week show a 94 percent chance of being aggressive, and doing very bad in school.
So then, games aren't good? No, wrong again. It's just a matter of common sense. Anything you consume exceedingly is bad for you, including games, music and film. Of course there are other negative factors that combine with long hours of playing video games in order to make a person aggressive, so don't worry if you play more than 3 hours a week, as I'm sure you do.