General DiscussionPsychology study on gaming and cognitive abilities

Bumping so I could check this out later

Also, you might want to see if there is any correlation between your test subject's rank in their game(i.e., mmr in dota) and their cognitive abilities.

Test halted in the middle of the test... I answer not with a number...zzz

I just clicked the the link it's a scam, don't let OP trick you.

Scam? How could that be?

... what's a scam about it?

the test said that i have autism

that was actually fun

was the iq estimate based only on 2nd part of the test, or both?

secondary school = highschool right ?

guess so
im still wondering what "team mmr" was supposed to mean

well years ago there was a separate mmr for playing with ur team or something

i think

yea but it was meaningless back then as well

86 and 87.44 score

I typed my email but froze I guess.. should I mail the email of the first page?

So let me get this straight. average IQ across the IQs of players from mentioned games is not less than 100, right? Sorry for my ignorance, statistical math isn't exactly my forte.

I scored 90 IQ thats basically an A

I got 104.17

Yeah the averages were all around 100 i think? starcraft and CSGO were highest.

91/121.64 2nd to last pattern i just guessed tho rip.

96 and 115.16

Pretty cool hope you can find some cool correlation of certain things (also I hope to see an e-mail one day about the conclusion of your study)

Average player is below the North American average for IQ. Nice. Seems reasonable. Confirmed, games destroy your brain.

98 ad 121.64

I scored 88% on my IQ test last summer when parents were debating if i should be put into an easier school. That's still above average

Department of Psychology
Downing Street
Cambridge, United Kingdom
CB2 3EB

"how long have you been playing?"
1-2 years
3-5 years
what if i played 2.5 years

"Give an estimate of the total number of hours you’ve spent playing Dota 2."
i'd rather not

"How often do you engage in the following activities in relation to Dota 2
-Visiting forum"

Yeah the averages were all around 100 i think? starcraft and CSGO were highest.
91/121.64 2nd to last pattern i just guessed tho rip.

anyway it proved me again that i'm a retard
funny is, that i was getting nearly 130 on most of the tests when i was younger but now i hardly ever get over 120
i guess i'm dumbing down, whatever. maybe if i play enough dota i will be classified as mentally impaired

iq decreases with age, i doubt this is an iq test, seems to be a correlation test.

patterns are just superimposition and cancellation.....

104 IQ
I am retarded.
whats the cap ?

A 20 question test like this probably has huge margins for error, still sad to see dota significantly below csgo.

it keeps freezing for me why TT.TT

is this broken? same result tho

Is post graduate degree university ccompleted?

116.13
http://puu.sh/nTi71/ffe7c1030c.JPG

would be really interesting to see how IQ and MMR are correlated

I got 75/92 IQ. I kinda suspected this happens to people which become isolated from society and do nothing but play video games all the time. Could also be caused by me sleeping longer than 24 hours ago, but I doubt that. I just hope it's possible to recover from, I too, had about 130 IQ when I took an official test in my childhood.

I'm so fucking stupid..

I didnt get full score because I answered 2 (sqr(5)) on the 5 sequence instead of 5^0 LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! Was thee first question so I kinda didn't realize xDDD

I want full pot!! why the fuck can't I go back :D

edit:

I think this shit is broken.. (got the same shit you got)

>tfw im not 18 yet

86% percentile on the first test, but I used a calculator because I didn't want to do have to do all of the math in my head and the 2nd portion of the test said that I had an IQ of 98.7

I have a Vitamin B12 deficiency along with a thyroid problem and I'm currently sleep deprived on a 700 calorie diet.

I also dropped out of middle school.

why is so many of us taking the iq test that seriously
that says something about us, maybe this was the point of the survey

Well, after a two attempts I had managed to score 88% on a first test with different numbers, so I guess it's not reliable for telling your IQ. What's more intriguing is that the averages seem to even out exactly like the common sense/perception would make you think - LOL players have lowest average score, while Starcraft 2 players have the highest.

v It was just a number for me. 130 was considered above the above average score in my country, I think

How do IQ tests work for your area? As far as I could remember from primary we were only given classifications such as "average" "above average" and "exceptional" or something like that and no number. The last IQ test I took was when I applied for a Japanese shipping agency and I scored an "exceptional" and even got an interview from the psychometrist, probably to check if I'm insane or having any mental issues I presume. Happened for like the past 4 tests I took including the one from the Jap company and for each one I took every year before the school year. But for this test it says I only have 93something IQ. either games indeed destroy your brain or IQ standards for this country is just dogshit low.

Edit: Also I only had 3 hours of sleep since the past 24 hours but I doubt it made the difference either. took screenshots of the problems I couldn't wrap my head around to see if I could solve them with enough sleep.

depends if you're from peru (joke not joke :D) or some shitstain country like that :D ^

130 is for mensa, isn't it

ya, i think so. Got no balls to actually take it.. I don't like failing :p

Is there practical use to having a Mensa membership?

Job opportunities, contacts, having that shit on your CV. And the rest :p, better ego and shit

would they let you take the test as many times as you would? Lol

Well, after a two attempts I had managed to score 88% on a first test with different numbers, so I guess it's not reliable for telling your IQ.

wat

Why would any serious psychology student do a "study" like this?
This seems tailor made to target the innate narcissism in this community. You guys are falling over yourselves to input data into an unverified site.

Why is this study taking place by students at a prestigious university like Cambridge? Why are 3rd year students running a study when they haven't even received their undergrad degree yet; that's the kind of work for Masters, Doc, and Postdoc students.

I find no mention of the "study" on the official Cambridge page. There is no information on the PI, the researching fellows; no identification of any sort.

Anyone with knowledge of security that can find out where the page is hosted?

Edit: okay I see they list the PI and fellows, but it's quite easy to spoof that info.

It's poorly made and I doubt it's from Cambridge but still.. Didn't spam us with shit and the questions seemed legit :p

you can always search up the people that are lsited there and ask if it's legit or not

Principal Investigator: Richard Mills

Student Researchers: Madeleine Wong and Sheralyn Loh

Study Centre: University of Cambridge

Could be her, but I won't bother confirming if it's legit https://uk.linkedin.com/in/madeleine-wong-a025b97b