Germans postulate what countless nights of playing Mario Kart DS before going home have made me suspect:
If you’ve been obsessed with PGR or Gran Tourismo lately, German psychologists think you should be extra cautious next time you get behind a real-life wheel.
Study: Racing Games Cause Real Car Crashes, from Wired
It would have been more meaningful to observe actual drivers as part of the study - I for one resist the urge to collide with every glimpse of yellow in the rearview mirror, even though I’m sure it’s that bastard Wario trying to take first place from me.
Some more positive observations - those trigger-finger reflexes can come in handy (ugh, no pun intended):
Neither years of training nor number of surgeries performed would predict performance on the laparoscopy skills test. Past gaming and current skills, in contrast, would. Those who had never gamed took significantly longer to complete the skills test, and had an error rate of roughly 1.5 times that of regular gamers.
Unreal Surgery: Gamers score on laparoscopic surgery tests, from Ars Technica
