Video game players and divided attention tasks. Human Factors (May 2014) publish...

Video game players and divided attention tasks. Human Factors (May 2014) published the results of a study designed to determine whether video game players are better than non-video game players at crossing the street when presented with distractions. Participants (college students) entered a street crossing simulator. The simulator was designed to have cars traveling at various high rates of speed in both directions. During the crossing, the students also performed a memory task as a distraction. The researchers found that students who are video game players took an average of 5.1 seconds to cross the street, with a standard deviation of .8 seconds. Assume that the time, x, to cross the street for the population of video game players has