Study Claims 8.5% of Young Gamers "Pathologically Addicted" 296
schnucki brings word of new research which claims roughly one in twelve American children between the ages of eight and 18 are "pathologically addicted" to video games. The study, conducted by Douglas Gentile, director of the National Institute on Media and the Family at Iowa State University, says that "pathological status was a significant predictor of poorer school performance even after controlling for sex, age, and weekly amount of video-game play." However, Professor Cheryl Olson, who has conducted her own research into video game use, questioned Gentile's methodology, saying, "The author is repurposing questions used to assess problem gambling in adults; however, lying to your spouse about blowing the rent money on gambling is a very different matter from fibbing to your mom about whether you played video games instead of starting your homework."
Re:Fffft, such a load of bull (Score:4, Funny)
Guess the blown vacuum tube?
That wasn't just a game, you could get paid for that
Re:Pfff (Score:1, Funny)
> some are destined for prison, and some are entrepreneurs who break the rules of the system
I hear all those people in prison are really 'entrepreneurs who break the rules of the system'.
You're Kidding Me Right? (Score:4, Funny)
Oh sweet irony (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Begging the Question (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Lies, damned lies, and money. (Score:5, Funny)
People have a voluntary choice whether to gamble or not. Teenage students and school, not so much.
Quite so.
Fight school addiction ! It's not too late !