EverQuest - Not Just For Geeks?

DJPenguin writes "In this article at the BBC, a respected psychologist has co-authored a study into people who play games online, which breaks some of the stereotype of online gamers." This is similar in the results as the survey data we did of open source developers. The stereotypes and realities are often *very* different.

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Re:not geeks?

[AKnightCowboy]

Ummm. If you spend more than 10 hours a week on a computer and it isn't part of your job, you're a geek. Non-geeks check their AOL e-mail a couple of times a week, surf the web to check IMDB or stock prices, and then log off and go outside or watch TV. Anybody that wastes 40+ hours a week playing video games is a MAJOR dork (dork geek) and should really find something more constructive to do like read slashdot or program something new and creative.

Of course

[Cheapoboy]

Sterotypes about shadowbane players still hold up.... yup all assholes.

hahahah

[jidar]

Yeah keep telling yourself that, NERD!

gb2a