Surgeons who play video games at least 3 hours a week perform 27% faster and make 37% fewer errors.
100 Mind-Blowing Fewer Facts
Cats have fewer toes on their back paws. Like most four-legged mammals, cats have five toes on the front, but their back paws only have four toes. Scientists think the four-toed back paws might help them run faster.
Video games help surgeons perform better. According to a 2007 study, surgeons who play certain video games at least 3 hours a week performed 27% faster with 37% fewer errors during surgery.
Giraffes have fewer neck bones than sloths. Another one of those fun facts that’ll make you go, “Are you kidding me?” I mean, one look at a giraffe and a sloth shows the very obvious… amount of neck on a giraffe compared to the sloth. However, giraffes have 7 neck vertebrae, while sloths have 10.
There are fewer stars than there are trees on Earth. According to statistics, there are around 3 trillion trees on the planet and only about 400 billion stars in the Milky Way.
It takes 3 alligators to make a pair of boots. The main parts of the alligator that are used in boot making are the belly, its tail, and the flank. Depending on the size of the alligator, fewer animals could be used to make a pair of boots.
There are fewer real flamingos than plastic flamingos in the world. Plastic flamingos you see on lawns outnumber their living, breathing counterparts.
Sharks kill fewer than 10 people per year. Humans kill about 100 million sharks per year. They should be much more scared of us than we are of them.
Boys have fewer taste buds than girls.
Study Reveals Surgeons Need To Play More Video Games, But Why? Beth Israel Medical Centre in New York recently carried out a study with 33 of its surgeons. The surgeons took a surgical skills test in Laparoscopy that lasted almost two days. In the study, researchers tracked performance in the skills test on an individual level. They then recorded each surgeon’s habits about playing video games. Nine of 33 surgeons played an average of three hours of games per week. They outscored surgeons that never played video games in various categories. For instance, they committed 37 per cent fewer errors and completed the test 27 per cent faster. The study concluded a strong correlation exists between surgical skill and Laparoscopy performance.
You’re in good hands if your surgeon was a gamer. Oddly enough, surgeons who grew up playing video games more than 3 hours per week make 37% fewer errors! Not only that, but they also had a 42% faster completion rate when it came to performing laparoscopic surgery, as well as suturing.
Filipinos use social media more than Americans. Among adult users in the Philippines, 93% use social networking sites, which is quite higher than the 74% that use it in the U.S. They mostly use it to talk about music and movies, and slightly fewer use it to talk about sports.
A sparse audience. Fewer than ten people witnessed the first powered flight by the Wright Brothers on 17 December 1903.