Only 15% of Gamers are Internet Addicts

Huckster writes "Jeffrey Parsons - a doctoral candidate from University of Iowa has resently conducted a research on MMORPG addiction. It took a while to get the results - but they are now available. The study found that about 15% of gamers meet the criteria for Internet addiction as provided by Kimberly Young, a leading researcher in Internet addiction. Using more strict criteria, a minimum of at least 10% of gamers met criteria for Internet addiction. Compared to national studies of Internet addiction, this numbers are somewhat elevated. However, given the sheer number of hours MMORPG gamers spend online (in comparison to the general population), even a 15% addiction rate is somewhat low. To illustrate the point, the college student spends 10 hours on the Internet per week. The average MMORPG gamer (addicted or not) spends 20-25 hours per week just playing MMORPGs, and an additional 10-15 hours per week in other Internet use. In other words, MMORPG players are spending 4x as much time online as non-gamers."

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Re:Only 15% of Doctoral Canidates are useful

[PriceIke]

I think you're much better off just growing a backbone and quitting ($ADDICTION_NAME) than going to a 12-step program and being brainwashed. Those things are scary. In fact some people give up their addiction to (whatever) and grow to be addicted to the 12-step program, thinking it's better for them somehow. I'm not sure which is worse, a substance abuse problem or being mentally reprogrammed.

That's just my experience, ymmv ..

Doctorial, huh?

[DroopyStonx]

Great.

What a career this goon will have... we have yet another person getting a PhD who is dumb as shit.

Captain Obvious here observes that people who play games that require internet access are "addicted to the internet". Mkay then, they're giving him a doctorate WHY, exactly?

Here's an idea: how about we create a study that figures out the statistics for fucking pointless studies that don't contribute to a damn thing that no one really cares about?