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Re: Unless they're Vikings, old men can't navigate
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2016 Nov 18, 09:30 -0500
From: Don Seltzer
Date: 2016 Nov 18, 09:30 -0500
The study would have been far more credible if it had actually tracked the same subjects over many years as they aged, and observed a decline in navigation skill. Instead it is a snapshot of a population that probably varies considerably in their comfort in playing computer games and their ability to relate them to real life.
Don SeltzerOn Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Frank Reed <NoReply_FrankReed@fer3.com> wrote:
My subject line here is a 'paraphrase' of the story. Read more here:
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-37988197 .Navigation in this context refers to innate, unskilled navigation --the ability to travel through a set of obstacles and find your way back to your starting point without actually thinking about it-- nothing like the technical craft that we think of as navigation. Personally, I'm not convinced that the ability to play a video game of navigation is a reliable measure of any form of real world navigation...
Frank Reed
