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From Science Now at the Los Angeles Times:
Researchers measured the range of reaction times across a group.
(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)
Whether you're naked and hungry on the savannah, driving in traffic
or at the controls of your favorite video game, being slow to react can
get you eaten, injured or splattered across the screen. While we
intuitively know this, a new study offers dramatic evidence of how much
speed of response still matters: In men and women from ages 20 to 59,
slower than average reaction time turned out to be a pretty good
predictor of premature death.
The
new research,
published this week in the journal PLoS One, was large, simple and
highly revealing. Between 1988 and 1994, researchers gave 5,134
Americans adults under 60 a very straightforward test of reaction time:
The participants, all part of a large federal study of American
nutrition and health, were seated at a computer and told to push a
button immediately upon seeing a 0 on the screen in front of them. There
was no practice period; a participant's average over 50 trials was
computed, and he or she had just a few seconds between those 50 trials.
Want to try a similar test of reaction time? Try your hand at this (very fun)
game.
The researchers measured the
range of reaction times across the group. They computed a "standard
deviation" -- a unit of measure that marks the extent to which an
individual's performance departs from the group's average. They took
note of the "variability" of each participants' response time -- how
widely reaction time fluctuated in the course of their 50 tries.
Then they waited close to 15 years to see who in this relatively young group of Americans would die, and of what....
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