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Radioactive IT New study: Gamers live longer
Radioactive IT New study: Gamers live longer | New study: Gamers live longer |
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| by Mike Bantick | |
| Monday, 09 July 2007 | |
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Page 1 of 2 Meanwhile, Harry Potter themed games continue to sell copiously on PlayStation, as well as other platforms. This week the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine published a study concerning the study habits of North American adolescents comparing gamers to non-gamers. The stated objective was: To examine the notion that playing video games is negatively related to the time adolescents spend in more developmentally appropriate activities. The result, in a nutshell showed that gamers spent on average 30 percent less reading time during the week for boys (80% of the gaming group) and homework time was down 34 percent on the weekend for girls. The percentages seem high, and also damningly negative towards the gaming public, until put into perspective. Firstly, there was no correlation between gaming time and a drop in time spent playing sports or conversing with family and friends, a typical stereotype of the average gamer. Secondly, the 30 percent reading time drop off was from an average reading time of only eight minutes during weekdays for boys in total, about 2.7 minutes less then. Thirdly, the drop off of weekend homework for girls amounted to 13 minutes. So there is no justification for gaming being to blame for any academic drop-off, in fact, in my opinion a case for the opposite can be made. Read page 2 to find out how. |
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