[AsylumofSouls]

You may want to contact some university sc2 clubs and see if they have statistics on how their players perform better at uni compared to other clubs. There are a few in Aus.

[breadfan]

Originally Posted by AsylumofSouls

You may want to contact some university sc2 clubs and see if they have statistics on how their players perform better at uni compared to other clubs. There are a few in Aus.

Much as I support the cause, I would cringe if any school agreed to do something because a bunch of students said that something made them do better.

Parox, not sure that's been proven. If anything I'm sure it could be said that training your brain to make fast decisions in starcraft 2 makes you better at making decisions in starcraft 2. It's an exciting prospect that it may improve things like multitasking, but it's not been proven based on what I've seen so far

[AsylumofSouls]

Originally Posted by breadfan

Much as I support the cause, I would cringe if any school agreed to do something because a bunch of students said that something made them do better.

Parox, not sure that's been proven. If anything I'm sure it could be said that training your brain to make fast decisions in starcraft 2 makes you better at making decisions in starcraft 2. It's an exciting prospect that it may improve things like multitasking, but it's not been proven based on what I've seen so far

Statistics from university clubs may help support what Paroxysm said with more facts if you're having trouble finding published studies.
Statistical support is not people saying it made them better, it's evidence of the fact.

[breadfan]

Originally Posted by AsylumofSouls

Statistics from university clubs may help support what Paroxysm said with more facts if you're having trouble finding published studies.
Statistical support is not people saying it made them better, it's evidence of the fact.

But it's not acceptable evidence to use for this sort of thing. There could be any number of reasons why people who start playing SC2 at uni get better grades. It may be that there's a social element which makes them enjoy going to uni more, therefore they are attending class more, and attending more classes means better results. You'll get the same results for the knitting club if someone who really enjoyed knitting and talking about knitting joined. That doesn't mean SC2 causes you to have better grades, and anecdotal indication of correlation shouldn't be taken to mean causation.

[AsylumofSouls]

Originally Posted by breadfan

But it's not acceptable evidence to use for this sort of thing. There could be any number of reasons why people who start playing SC2 at uni get better grades. It may be that there's a social element which makes them enjoy going to uni more, therefore they are attending class more, and attending more classes means better results. You'll get the same results for the knitting club if someone who really enjoyed knitting and talking about knitting joined. That doesn't mean SC2 causes you to have better grades, and anecdotal indication of correlation shouldn't be taken to mean causation.

As a trained biotechnologist and forensic chemist, I understand anecdotal evidence is not acceptable in a scientific community. The people Venom is proposing this to are not the scientific community, they are going to be average Joes and any evidence he can get will be good evidence for this case.

Any ideas you have to help him out with how to propose this to schools would, I'm sure, be welcomed.

[breadfan]

Originally Posted by AsylumofSouls

As a trained biotechnologist and forensic chemist, I understand anecdotal evidence is not acceptable in a scientific community. The people Venom is proposing this to are not the scientific community, they are going to be average Joes and any evidence he can get will be good evidence for this case.

Any ideas you have to help him out with how to propose this to schools would, I'm sure, be welcomed.

But we're talking about kids' education, which is about the most important thing in all of society. I feel that when we say to children and their parents that SC2 will give them better grades, it had damn well better be verifiable and true. It's not right to dupe them into thinking that something is a certain way when you can't be absolutely sure.