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"At baseline, time watching and socializing were negatively correlated with intelligence, while gaming did not correlate. After two years, gaming positively impacted intelligence, but socializing had no effect. This is consistent with cognitive benefits documented in experimental studies on video gaming."

So it's confirmed? Gaming > Socializing? /s

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Slightly confused on how they define "socializing"

They state

> Socializing via social media, text, and video chat

Is socializing via social media mean talking in a chat? Or does scrolling your instagram feed and liking your friend's posts count as socializing?

Or scrolling Twitter and liking/replying to your friend's tweets? That could be considered socializing too?

> Following the steps of a previous study with this same dataset (measuring baseline associations only [13]), we categorized screen time here into three major groups: (a) Watching (1 + 2), (b) Socializing (4 + 5 + 6), (c) Gaming (3).

So that's why they described it as " ocial media, text, and video chat". Their data comes from the ABCD study. I didn't look much further. https://abcdstudy.org/

It's also tracking "intelligence" rather than e.g. "social skills" so there may be other benefits that they didn't track.

Only if you optimize for intelligence accoring to the standards in the article.

Intelligence does not directly correlate with either success in life or happiness (I believe intelligence is negatively correlated with happiness).

Do you have a source for that? Happiness I can believe, especially because of the correlation between intelligence and neuroticism, but if IQ is a valid proxy for intelligence then I think the consensus is that intelligence strongly correlates with success.

High IQ people are also thought to be prone to ambition, questioning for purpose and stricter yearning at any achievement level which leaves them perennially unsatisfied

Technically correct is the best kind of correct ;)

Those who played e.g. during WoW's golden age will attest that the two don't contradict whatsoever :)

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