It’s all super interesting, thanks for all the info!
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daannii@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
It’s honestly maybe more flattering than you realize.
Motor Reaction time starts to decline around age 30.
Comparing a 20 year old and a 30 year old. About a 200ms decline. That’s not huge in real life activities. But it can make a difference in games.
So essentially if you are over 30, playing against 20 year olds, you are literally playing with a handicap.
If you still beat them, that’s something.
It could mean your prediction skills are superior, that they circumvent motor response delays.
It’s likely something like that is occuring.
Some humans are really really good at compensation in the brain.
When something starts to slow down or not work as efficiently as it used to, people with higher cognitive intelligence, often find alternatives approaches to compensate for this loss. To the point where the end product is even superior to a young healthy brain.
This is actually the real reason why people who are higher educated and more intelligent show less severe dementia symptoms and get the disorder later in life. Or so it seems.
They actually have it just as bad (biologically) but are masters of brain compensation.
A famous study on nuns is how we first learned about this. If you are interested.
Anissem@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
tetris11@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
He concluded that Alzheimer’s disease is likely caused by early childhood experiences or trauma instead of something from adulthood
Woah
daannii@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Yeah but that was not supported.
It’s biological.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
I mean, you say that, but I’m mid 30s >:D
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PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Imo, this test is flawed and doesn’t take display refresh rate into account. Well, at least flawed in the sense that you can’t compare it to other people because they may have measured it differently on different hardware. Its not universal.
I’m at work right now and using this shitty screen at 60hz, I got 230ms. I upped the refresh rate as fast as it can go, to 75hz and improved my reaction time to 200ms.
To get accurate results, you’d need to do this test at different stages of your life on the same hardware with the same software version of the test. So take it with some salt.
rapchee@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
oh that’s because you started at -40ms
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I was literally Stadia incarnate in my heyday
daannii@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
So I said there is a difference of about 200ms. But humans cannot typically react faster than 200-300 ms. Even young people. Because it takes at least 200ms for a signal to be sent. So I’m suspicious of this result.
I used to do research on reaction time. We throw out any number under 200 because it’s considered not humanly possible and it’s an error measurement.