Reply #6: Gaming incorporates a lot of different skill sets.

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Most gamers are at the highest rankings of language and math aptitude. They're also generalists rather than specialists.

We already focus a lot on the value of specialists. We see it every day. Nothing wrong with engineering, math, law, and science. A lot of gamers COME FROM or go into these professional arenas. But we're talking about people who make problem solving a hobby and learn that there's more than one way to, as they say, "skin a cat."

The really good gamers are very good at thinking outside the box, not necessarily trapped by generalized assumptions as to what would work and what wouldn't in any given situation.