[beginner] What's wrong?

[Michael Selik]

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016, 3:40 PM Marko Rauhamaa <marko at pacujo.net> wrote:

> Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu>:
>
> > On 4/2/2016 12:44 PM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> >
> >> Nowadays software companies and communities are international.
> >
> > Grade school classrooms, especially pre-high school, are not.
>
> Parenthetically, English teachers in Finland have been happy with how
> teenage boys' English grades have gone up with the advent of online
> gaming.
>
>    High school boys get more top scores in English than girls. According
>    to a recent master's thesis, the most important causal factor for the
>    boys' success is spending a lot of time playing computer games. An
>    English language professor wants to raise awareness about the role of
>    games for language skills.
>

Gaming also helps your reaction time. Normally 0.3 ms, but 0.1 ms for top
gamers. And fighter pilots.

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