If "Scientists" Want to Study Gamers....

[Esri]

.... then why don't they do studies on a large enough sample size to be scientifically valid and, for goodness sake, differentiate between cause and effect and "pre-existing conditions".  This "study" is a load of manure.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32463904/ns/technology_and_science-games/wid/11915829&GT1=40006

Please note the noted medical authority who says that video games are "imitation play-like activities".....  I don't disagree that I, and most of us, gamers are not, need more physical activity, but does he consider board games, cards, jacks, toys "imitation play-like activities"?

Jeez.

[Quinatan]

Well I'd want to read the study itself not a media spin on the bits and pieces of the study.  On data point that seems pretty scewed to me is they asked people ages 19-90 and came up with an average video game players age of 35.   When at the bajillion kids under 19 that play video games?

[Kaid]

Well the first generation of video game players are in their 30s now and there are a lot of us out there. The avg age range of gamers is a lot higher than it once was when it was all teens or younger.

As for the other findings I am pretty sure if you took a similar sample size of non gamers you would find a great many of them would be overweight and depressed as well our nation as a whole is on the plumpy and grumpy side of the scale.