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🔗Carl Lumma <clumma@...>

5/4/2005 4:43:43 PM

This here's a good article...

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.05/flynn.html

-Carl

🔗Carl Lumma <clumma@...>

5/5/2005 8:46:56 AM

> This here's a good article...
>
> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.05/flynn.html

Though I think the video game suggestion is a bit fanciful.
It's a richening of the entire environment, of which video
games are only a part, that causes the Flynn effect.
Probably the biggest single influence, I have thought since
I was a kid, is TV. Though bad in excess, and though
quick-takes are potentially harmful in other ways, exposure
to moving images and sounds, and to (a form of) theater, is
good for brains.

-Carl