{"id":100996,"date":"2016-08-13T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=100996"},"modified":"2016-08-13T13:25:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T11:25:49","slug":"new-study-finds-gamers-do-better-at-school-and-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/100996-new-study-finds-gamers-do-better-at-school-and-work","title":{"rendered":"New study finds gamers do better at school and work"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recent study <\/a><\/strong>published by the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology has revealed a correlation between higher academic performance and playing video games.<\/p>\n

The study found that students who played online games almost every day scored 15 points<\/strong> above average in maths<\/strong> and reading tests and 17 points<\/strong> above average in science<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

While it is always important to note that\u00a0correlation\u00a0does not always equal causation, but this is also not the first<\/a><\/strong> study to show the positive cognitive effects of gaming.<\/p>\n

Alberto Posso<\/a><\/strong>, from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology<\/a><\/strong>, analyzed data from high school students across Australia taking the 2012 Program for International Student Assessment (Pisa). The analysis\u00a0investigated the correlation between academic scores and children\u2019s hobbies and interests, such as internet usage and video games, reports Forbes<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you play online games you\u2019re solving puzzles to move to the next level and that involves using some of the general knowledge and skills in maths, reading and science that you\u2019ve been taught during the day.\u201d<\/p>\n

The study also found that social media had a negative effect on academic results, with those who spent more time on Facebook less likely to do as well as their peers who spent the same time gaming.<\/p>\n

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Have you noticed a connection between people who game and work performance? Let us know in the comments below and\u00a0 in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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You may now have a good excuse for “gaming time” when coming home from work or school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":101002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21144,13345,21146,1886],"class_list":["post-100996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-academics","tag-forbes","tag-marks","tag-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101096,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100996\/revisions\/101096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}