Over the past ten years, a number of studies have shown that video game players often outperform non-gamers on measures of perception and cognition, and that video game practice can enhance those abilities.

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It greatly magnified and concentrated the mortgage valuation problem, allowed derivative investors to game the system and added to the perception of insolvency for many of the financial institutions which then had to be bailed out.

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