Your StarCraft II Potential Peaked At Age 24

"StarCraft II is popular among competitive gamers for having the depth necessary to reward differences in skill. A new studyhas found that your ability keep up with the game's frantic pace starts to decline at age 24. This is relevant to more than justStarCraft II players: 'While many high-performance athletes start to show age-related declines at a young age, those are often attributed to physical as opposed to brain aging. ... While previous lab tests have shown faster reaction times for simple individual tasks, it was never clear how much relevance those had to complex, real-world tasks such as driving. Thompson noted that Starcraft is complex and quite similar to real-life tasks such as managing 911 calls at an emergency dispatch centre, so the findings may be directly relevant. However, game performance was much easier to analyze than many real-life situations because the game generates detailed logs of every move. In a way, Thompson said, the study is a good demonstration of what kinds of insights can be gleaned from the "cool data sets" generated by our digital lives.'"

http://games.slashdot.org/story/14/0...aked-at-age-24