Survey Tackles College Gaming Stereotypes

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to an AP/Yahoo story discussing a survey on college gaming, whose results seem to challenge stereotypes about videogames interfering with college studies. According to a researcher for the project, which surveyed college gamers throughout the US, "It's not taking the place of studying; nor is it taking away from other activities. What.. [college students] seem to have done is incorporated gaming into a very multitask-oriented lifestyle." In fact, playing games can even save you time, quips college gamer David McNulty, "It takes less time to play a few games than to go downtown or see a movie with your friends. It's easier to meet them online and shoot at them."

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hmm

[miruku]

i would have thought thah trying to defeat the more prevelant and damaging stereotypes which lie behind sexism, racism, homophobia, ablism, agism, etc, would be a more worthy task. do gamers really feel that prosecuted?

I did that one to many times, also

[hswerdfe]

I nearly Failed 4th Year of university because of Games.
for 2 months straight I didn't go to class, all I did was play video games.
then one day I showed up to EM-4 and some body asked how I had done on the midterm.
the thing was I didn't even know there had been a midterm.
sigh....
I managed to squeek by with 50's in most of my classes, but still.
the study is full of shit games suck, and will lower your grades, trust me!