Not that I am in anyway an advocate of video games, but I read this Globe and Mail article and I thought I should point out the flaw in blindly believing stats. While this study suggests that kids who spend more than 2 hours playing videos games are more likely to have attention problems, it may also be possible that kids who have attention problems are more likely to play video games.
I’m not entirely convinced that it’s video games alone that are causing attention problems. It might just be the education system itself and how students are taught. It could be that students are not at all engaged at school, and therefore resort to more engaging video games. This study is just trying to find something else to blame educational problems on.
I like this quote though:
“It actually causes people to view this high level of stimulation as normative. And by comparison, life is sort of boring. It doesn’t happen fast enough.”
“Life isn’t as interesting as video games are.”
So maybe if life was a bit more interesting, or if school was a bit more interesting, we wouldn’t have this video game problem.
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