{"id":15402,"date":"2012-06-07T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-07T17:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15402"},"modified":"2012-06-07T12:00:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T17:00:53","slug":"yet-another-scare-study-about-teens-and-video-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/06\/07\/yet-another-scare-study-about-teens-and-video-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet another scare &#8220;study&#8221; about teens and video gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/the-lay-scientist\/2012\/jun\/07\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Robbins<\/a> in the <em>Guardian<\/em> on another &#8220;study&#8221; linking teenagers who play video games to negative results:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not that the &#8216;research&#8217; cited says anything about violent video games to begin with. BAAM conducted a survey of 204 parents of children aged nine to eighteen, asking about their use of computer games: anything from <em>Tetris<\/em> to <em>GTA IV<\/em> via <em>SimCity<\/em>. This produced the following results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>&#8220;Forty-six per cent said their sons or daughters had become &#8216;less co-operative&#8217; since they started playing video games. Forty-four per cent said they were more &#8216;rude or intolerant towards others&#8217;, 40 per cent said they were more impatient, 36 per cent reported an increase in &#8216;aggressive behaviour&#8217;, 29 per cent cited more mood swings and 26 per cent said their offspring had become more reclusive.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>26% of parents thought their teen offspring had become more reclusive in the years since they started playing video games. No doubt pedantic nay-sayers will whine on about the other <strong><em>SEVENTY-BLOODY-FOUR PER CENT<\/em><\/strong> of kids who either <em>didn&#8217;t<\/em> become more reclusive or became <em>less<\/em> reclusive, or ask how &#8216;reclusive&#8217; is even defined or measured in the first place; but if that incredible correlation doesn&#8217;t persuade you, well then by golly-gosh I don&#8217;t know what will.<\/p>\n<p>Even the most &#8216;persuasive&#8217; of those figures stands at just 46%. That, astonishingly, is the proportion of parents who think their teenaged children are becoming less cooperative with time. This is put down to video games, rather than something silly, like&#8230; oh I don&#8217;t know, maybe the fact that they&#8217;re teenagers?! 46% is a shocking figure only in the sense that I&#8217;m shocked it&#8217;s only 46%. Perhaps video games actually make kids more cooperative? We have no way of knowing, because there doesn&#8217;t seem to have been any effort made to survey kids who <em>don&#8217;t<\/em> play video games as a control group. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Robbins in the Guardian on another &#8220;study&#8221; linking teenagers who play video games to negative results: Not that the &#8216;research&#8217; cited says anything about violent video games to begin with. BAAM conducted a survey of 204 parents of children aged nine to eighteen, asking about their use of computer games: anything from Tetris to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,28,15],"tags":[374,39,504],"class_list":["post-15402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-media","category-technology","tag-children","tag-junkscience","tag-teenagers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-40q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15403,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15402\/revisions\/15403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}