arstechnica.com — A new study shows that gaming is largely an innocuous hobby when it comes to academic performance and effort, but that angle was completely ignored by mainstream media coverage which tried to spin it into arguing just the opposite.
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0degreesJul 5, 2007
No, work ethic being a factor??? I don't buy it... never could happen. It's all about video games.
jackijinxJul 6, 2007
Actually, the study was on the age range of 10 to 19...but I'm just being nit-picky.
jackijinxJul 6, 2007
It's the beer's fault that I'm no longer an A student! Seriously!
osmodiusJul 6, 2007
Playing violent video games for only an hour or two a day isn't going to harm anyone. That's what the media has wrong.Addiction to MMORPGs is definitely harmful, I speak from experience. I don't think MMOs like WoW even require an addictive personality, they're just built so that you have to play them every hour of every day. They can be fun at first, but after a while you're just playing because you have to.World of Warcraft is more harmful than marijuana. Not as harmful as Tobacco, but still pretty harmful. Some people are able to just play it casually without it affecting their lives, but most WoW players aren't like that.
dougfromniuJul 6, 2007
This study is complete crap. My brother failed out of ISU because all he did was play WOW. He stopped going to class he stopped leaving his dorm except to eat and visit the bathroom. He played WOW for about 16+ hours a day every day. The game is very addicting due to the fact that it NEVER ends. Its like a soap opera for young people. I am sure every one of you knows someone who watches soap operas. They are TV shows in which the plot NEVER ends. 30 years later that world is still freekin turning. My friend Scott used to be a genius. He was great in school, he read all the time and was amazing in school. He graduated a 4 year school in 4 years with top marks in all of his classes and now he got into WOW and yes it is 2 am here and he is playing WOW. He lives at home with his parents he hasn't looked for a job yet and all he does is sit at home and play WOW.So to recap, this article is complete crap and whatever study they did was not done right. My brother failed out of ISU because of WOW and my friend Scott used to be a real smart person but now lives with his parents and plays WOW all day every day, has no job and no life.-Doug-Pardon my bad grammar and sentence structure
cklolJul 7, 2007
Yeah true, WoW isn't the problem, the addiction and lack of wanting to do anything else is, and some people can play the game casually, while others (like me) cannot.
pixelbenderJul 9, 2007
I call BS - you don't know me.