Enjoying this, but can't get beyond Bobcat. If I'm alive at 70,
and in a
rational frame of find, I'll compare my performance then...but I
suspect
that in the last 10 years, my performance, too, has not worsened.
I can't get beyond Bobcat by looking intently for the sheep, but do
make it to Rabbit when I'm just listening for them. (and on my
system, the timing seems to be rather coarse anyway: cum grano salis)
This is in keeping with common wisdom that visual stimuli can be run
at low refresh rates, audio requires higher, and force feedback yet
higher frequencies.
They say that "Attentional Blink" (AB) means we often miss visual
features that occur 180-450 ms after our attention has been caught by
a different salient feature in the same area; in Sheep Dash terms,
this period of time corresponds to the entire right-hand side of the
playfield, which seems like a major lacuna!
(AB can be reduced through training, which is presumably what Mochida
was referring to in not letting his mind get stuck, but weakening in
cross-modal AB might also explain the former popularity of developing
"sentiment du fer")
Some day, and not too far in the future, I’ll be unfit for this
kind of activity. My goal is to make it to 65 and still be able to
put on the pack.
Good luck; my guess is that 65 traditionally works a a fairly
conservative cutoff, so your chances ought to be high. My wife is a
big fan of Pulse/Respiration*/Temperature as a quick check battery,
and my experience has been that they've been fairly accurate
indicators for us, so I'd think good values here also give you a good
prognosis.
-Dave
* for what it's worth: I've been working with cheap units which give
pulse as well as accelerometer telemetry which can be used to
determine "man down" situations. never took the contract, but I was
once asked to study regularity in the heartbeat interval to determine
the effect in recovery situations, and these units also provide all
the necessary raw data for that. do you all use similar systems, or
would they be technological overkill?
