A new MacArthur study has shown that most teens play games and this can actually help social interaction and promote civic engagement.
Although I like how they phrased this statistic:
99% of boys say they are gamers and 94% of girls report that they play games.
So, the girls don’t consider themselves gamers I presume. I always have issues with statistics – makes you wonder how they phrase things to get the results they want or to slant the findings in their favor. Like if a someone did a survey and found out that 98% of Americans would vote for Mr. Bubba. Won’t they don’t tell you is they asked the survey takers “Would you rather vote for Mr. Bubba or get pushed off of a cliff” or something. Anyway, getting off topic. It is just curious that boys are gamers and girls play games, whether this is a symptom of the view of the survey takers or of the survey makers, I don’t know.
Go check it out: Major New Study Shatters Stereotypes About Teens and Video Games
Don’t like reading? Watch CBS talk about it: Is Gaming Good For Kids?
Old Saying: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
It is odd that they have a different name for guys and girls. I wonder just how skewed the statistic is in this case.
LOL. That’s the problem with such things – they never publish the questions they asked to reach those statistics.
But still, glad to see games are getting some good press.