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Study: Video games make kids smarter

2022-07-21 08:36:59Lifestyle SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Study: Video games make kids smarter
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"Video games entertain children and do them no good." You've probably heard a lot of people support something like this, but new research comes to answer the above as a counterargument.

A related study from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden concluded that children who play video games within a normal period of time tend to have a higher IQ.

The research, which lasted two years, involved more than 9,000 children aged 9 and 10, who were given a variety of intelligence and perception tests. The results of the research, published in Scientific Reports, are of great interest.

Just over 5,000 of the children were followed up after two years, when they were asked to repeat the psychological tests. This allowed the researchers to study how the children's test performance varied from one test to the next and to control for individual differences in the first test. 

They also controlled for genetic differences that may affect intelligence and differences that may be related to parents' educational background and income.

Parents were asked how many hours their children spend in front of a screen, and the average survey showed that children watch 2.5 hours of television each day, half an hour scrolling through social media and an hour playing video games. As noted, children who spend more time playing video games increased their IQ by about 2.5 points over those two years.

In fact, it does not seem to have affected the socialization of children, as many parents fear. What video games seem to offer children is that they enable them to develop more logical thinking, be able to solve complex problems faster, and learn more easily.

According to lead researcher Dr Torkel Klingberg, who is a professor of neurology, the screens and their brightness did not appear to play a role in the children's perception or have any other side effects.

The research also found that neither television nor social media negatively affects children's intelligence, nor does it improve it the way video games do.


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