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posted by Fnord666 on Monday February 04 2019, @01:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the playing-halo-at-work dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Move over trust falls and ropes courses, turns out playing video games with coworkers is the real path to better performance at the office.

A new study by four BYU information systems professors found newly-formed work teams experienced a 20 percent increase in productivity on subsequent tasks after playing video games together for just 45 minutes. The study, published in AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction, adds to a growing body of literature finding positive outcomes of team video gaming.

"To see that big of a jump -- especially for the amount of time they played -- was a little shocking," said co-author and BYU associate professor Greg Anderson. "Companies are spending thousands and thousands of dollars on team-building activities, and I'm thinking, go buy an Xbox."

For the study, researchers recruited 352 individuals and randomly organized them into 80 teams, making sure no participants with pre-existing relationships were on the same team. For their initial experimental task, each team played in a geocaching competition called Findamine, an exercise created by previous IS researchers which gives players short, text-based clues to find landmarks. Participants were incentivized with cash rewards for winning the competition.

[...] The researchers found that while the goal-training teams reported a higher increase in team cohesion than the video-gaming teams, the video gamers increased actual performance on their second round of Findamine significantly, raising average scores from 435 to 520.

"Team video gaming may truly be a viable -- and perhaps even optimal -- alternative for team building," said lead researcher Mark Keith, associate professor of information systems at BYU.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 04 2019, @11:37AM (4 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday February 04 2019, @11:37AM (#796084) Homepage Journal

    The former, of course. Between the two of us, you're the uneducated one when it comes to all matters piscine.

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  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Monday February 04 2019, @11:40PM (3 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Monday February 04 2019, @11:40PM (#796352) Journal

    you're the uneducated one when it comes to all matters piscine.

    Why do you say this, oh Mini-Buzzard? Just because I believe that actual fishing involves non-scavenger species and a proper rod and line and dry-flies? And I have tried many other methods and environs in my millennia, so I would dispute your claim, although it was not uncharacteristic, nor unexpected.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 05 2019, @12:32AM (2 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday February 05 2019, @12:32AM (#796376) Homepage Journal

      I don't only fish for catfish, just primarily. They're the second best tasting you're likely to find in this neck of the woods. First being crappie but the creel limit on those, their much smaller size, and the inability to nap while fishing for them makes them my second choice.

      My catfish of choice is the flathead catfish, by the way. Flatheads aren't scavengers. Unless given no other choice, they exclusively eat any live fish that's half their size or less. Unlike channel or blue cat, flatheads don't really get the annoying yellow fat that makes the meat taste like ass as they get bigger; a fifty pound flathead tastes just as good as a three pound flathead.

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      • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday February 05 2019, @07:04AM (1 child)

        by aristarchus (2645) on Tuesday February 05 2019, @07:04AM (#796540) Journal

        Never tasted a Golden Trout, sauted in butter? Or a properly prepared Rainbow Trout? Even a Dolly Varden is vastly superior to any of the mud fish you fish for. But, then there are the stripers, the wahoo, the Mahimahi and the Tunnies. And the Sockeyes and the King salmon. Salmonidae > [google.com] rule, Buzzard. You would know this if you were the right sort of injun.

        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday February 05 2019, @06:03PM

          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday February 05 2019, @06:03PM (#796797) Homepage Journal

          Trout are greasy and fishy as hell compared to any fish I enjoy eating. The only good things about them are they're more of a challenge to catch than almost every other native fish and they're pretty. We do have a freezer full up with striper, so I can say with absolute certainty that it is not as good as any species of catfish except mud cat, though it is better than black bass of any sort and they are a lot of fun to catch if you have a bigger boat than mine. Salmon can suck it. They taste like ass. They're not even as good as black bass and I won't eat black bass if there's anything else in the fridge. Also, they're not native to anywhere within day-trip range.

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