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How Videogames Blind Us With Science

Posted on Monday, September 08, 2008 at 2:17 PM by Malcolm

Kids who are turning away from Science are actually applying scientific reasoning to analyze videogames. From the article: "they were pretty good at figuring out how to defeat the bosses. One day she found out why. A group of them were building Excel spreadsheets into which they'd dump all the information they'd gathered about how each boss behaved: What potions affected it, what attacks it would use, with what damage, and when. Then they'd develop a mathematical model to explain how the boss worked -- and to predict how to beat it."


Edited on: Monday, September 08, 2008 2:19 PM

Posted in General (RSS), Science (RSS)