Must admit, that was my first thought too. It wasn't a test of game playing, which is a more mental task, it was a test of manual dexterity. I'm sure the results are valid, just not for the claimed result.
Men! If you want to win at board games this Christmas, turn off the rock music – scientists
Chaps, listen. Are you sick of losing at Monopoly every Christmas? Do you dread the sight of backgammon or the sound of rattling Scrabble tiles? The trick to winning board games could be to avoid listening to rock music, apparently. Scientists at Imperial College London have teamed up with musicians from the Royal College of …
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Tuesday 13th December 2016 13:11 GMT Anonymous Coward
"Scientists at Imperial College London"
"The goal was to carefully remove plastic body parts from Cavity Sam, a worried-looking cartoon man, who has a red light bulb nose that lights up every time players touched the edge of a cavity opening with a pair of tweezers. And the players received a mild electric shock."
I doubt they even know what "Cavity Sam" is, in the UK it's called "Operation"
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
