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."
