Over the Hill at 24: Age-Related Cognitive-Motor Decline in Reaction Times

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20 points·sharksandwich··5 comments

It was refreshing to see such a well-written and clear-to-understand article in a domain far outside my expertise. It's amazing to see the lowering of the looking-doing latency in the higher leagues.

The one thing they seem to need to nail down better is the impact of hours-per-week. Quoting "Older players do report playing fewer hours per week". It wasn't clear to me if that could account for the delay in look-see action instead of just age.

As an older gamer, maybe it's time to start thinking about a "Champions" or "Seniors" leagues :D

It would be nice to see the plot of looking-doing latency vs hours played per week, as well as hours per week per age cohort,

And why not bin by age and hour per week?

Other than that. Ouch. But on the other hand, I'm getting old enough to notice that I'm getting slower without even having to read a report about it :-(

The hypothesis is very believable. Still, every player should know there is a bunch of ways to get biased results in a study like this.

Older gamers could be devoting less time and instead using experience to place in high leagues without practicing as much and getting low reaction times. The study can be biased by the set of people of each age that chose to play games, and so on.

Previously discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7594583.

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