2011年1月27日星期四

this morning we reported on a new study that claims

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"Early this morning we reported on a new study that claims one in ten children are engaged in pathological gaming, prone to serious mental health issues. How does CNN handle the study?Surprisingly well, if you ask me. They manage to mention that the 3,000 children involved in the study were from Singapore, for instance, which is of course a completely different country than the United States with a completely different replica Longines L4.709.4.73.6 Watch culture. They touch on the Entertainment Software Association's assertion that this new study means absolutely nothing at all and was conducted with the aim of proving a negative point about the industry.The only huge slip up I noticed was calling World of Warcraft a violent video game. Someone hasn't played any WoW lately.

Thanks RtFusion for the link!”Playing video games is normal. A new study tries to pinpoint when it isn't, claiming that one in ten are addicted.A two-year study followed the gaming habits of over 3,000 Singaporean school kids, revealing that one in ten were “addicts”. According to the study, kids who became addicted to games saw an increase of swiss replica watches depression and anxiety and a drop in school grades. “We tend to approach it as 'just' entertainment, or just a game, and forget that entertainment still affects us,” Douglas A. Gentile, who worked on the study, told Reuters. “In fact, if it doesn't affect us, we call it 'boring!'“I don't call it boring.Though, the study might have intrinsic problems. Teachers handed out questionnaires to kids, asking them things like whether they skipped household chores to game or if they gamed to escape from problems both of which sound like normal kid things!