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Originally Posted by Brutha  Playing Video Games Reduces Sex Differences In Spatial Skills makes the case that a lot of the advantages that boys have at math is due to playing more video games than girl. It is a good example for the case that there is a certain real value in a game like GTA4.
Before you ban it you should at least show that the negatives (increasing aggression) outway the postives (increasing math abilities). |
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My 15 year old son is well above average in maths without the need to play video games. I'm so happy he is not a brain-dead, anti-social zombie who spends his life alone in the bedroom playing computer games, and hardly able to string two words together to form a coherent sentence.