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Actually games improve very specialized cognitive functions. For instance you know that being good at chess doesn't relate much to being good at poker, and being good at tennis doesn't do much for your football abilities.

Similarly, being good at some FPS game makes you at best marginally better at video games of a different genre, and have no actual relationship to your abilities in the real world. Even a study on driving games showed no improvement of actual driving in test subjects.



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