Hyperactivity And Videogames Linked

Posted by simoniker on Tuesday September 9, 2003 @01:04PM from the too-busy-playing-games-to-have-a dept.

Thanks to BBC News for their article discussing claims that hyperactive children spend much longer playing computer games than healthy children. According to the UK-based research, "Children with ADHD were more likely to play games based on fighting", and "..spent 11.3 hours a week playing computer games, double the time spent by the other [non-hyperactive] group." The researcher, Dr. Justin Williams, said that the hyperactive children "...were the least socially able and the most technically able, which leads them to prefer computer games to social interaction", but didn't condemn games completely, adding: "It's important for parents to be fully engaged in what their children are getting from their media diet... there are lots of good computer games to play."

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Re:Correlation vs. Causation? by seinman · 2003-09-09 13:18 · Score: 3, Interesting

There's not a lot to conclude based on this study except "hyperactive kids like videogames".

And that's somehow not important? Knowing trends of a group of people with a certain affliction can greatly help in diagnoising it. Especially something like ADHD, which is a title thrown on every kid who ever gets bored. The more things like this that we can use to discover the true problems with people, the better.