Researchers at the University of York determined that your rank is linked to your intelligence

ShinkoMinori·11/17/2017, 11:02:00 PM·1 votes·812 views

Multiplayer video games: Link between skill and intelligence - News and events, The University of York

The more skillful you are at the game the higher your intelligence is according to the University of York, then when people talk about ranks its not only "being able to perform at the game" but also having the intellectual capability to understand it better.

Also worth nothing most rioters are silver and bronze :^)

Rioters should listen to only high ranked players when balancing the game then?

What do you guys think?

14 Comments

WalkingInACircle11/18/2017, 12:14:37 AM3 votes

Correlation.

Idiot.

Revali11/17/2017, 11:36:08 PM3 votes

I'm dumb as fuck and I'm at a decent rating.

DariusDemiurge11/17/2017, 11:29:14 PM2 votes

Next someone will post the old jokes of studies linking violence to violent videogames.

Titanium7011/18/2017, 12:18:26 AM2 votes

Wait so they found out someone who can translate and use the infromation the game give you faster and with a higher precision is able to rank higher... WOW. Didnt expect that. Really well spend time/monetary budget! x'D

UnboundHades11/17/2017, 11:22:09 PM2 votes

when have any studies based upon games been correct and how the hell would learning how to abuse stupid shit make you a genius

AdeBug11/18/2017, 12:02:20 AM1 votes

Researchers should also know they're comparing iq tests and chess, which are 'single player', to 'multiplayer' games... and they even put that in their title.

I would pretty much take any "research" involving video games with a grain of salt and not be so quick to using it to make my point.

And not just involving video games, based on the history of the bad rep that was given from the first studies. Basically any study nowadays can be extremely flawed, if you dissect it and find their tester database, their ranges and parameters. Look at the food industry, you have studies that contradict themselves from one year to the next. Wine is bad, wine is good. Chocolate is bad, chocolate is good! Eggs are good, eggs are bad, eggs are good again. Etc.

In this case, like I said, it can be easily dismissed pairing the title, MULTIplayer, with the 2nd paragraph, IQ test. Not saying it's the opposite, and idiots are challenger. Surely there are correlations, and some strategies from SP can be applied to MP. Just saying it's flawed and more, in fact NEW, data is needed, to see the big picture, the entire array of vid game types.

Ha. Moving on.

z63XnLCMwX11/17/2017, 11:34:31 PM1 votes

Because being good at a video game means you're smart.

Mysticman8911/17/2017, 11:18:14 PM1 votes

Playtesters tend to be D1+, who are the ones who tend to guide design choices around balance. They don't actually make the balance decisions it's true, but it's the highest level of players guiding how they feel and if they promote the sort of things the designers are hoping to achieve.

Also, skimming the actual paper, it's not a super strong correlation. Statistically significant, but theres plenty of outliers, and as they discuss, and it's also just a correlation, which could have other explanations (one that they discuss is how the age people tend to perform best at MOBAs is also the age people tend to perform best on intelligence tests).