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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-17-08 12:39 PM
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The kids are all right: gamers well-adjusted, civic minded
A new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, an initiative of the Pew Research Center, has come up with some intriguing results and some mundane ones. The study, called "Teens, Video Games and Civics: Teens' gaming experiences are diverse and include significant social interaction and civic engagement," was meant to show the relation of civic-minded behavior, but you can learn much about the perception of gaming and how it impacts the lives of children and teenagers. The results are interesting in that they're banal: gaming is like going to the movies, and it's hard to draw many conclusions from the fact that someone is a gamer.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080917-the-kids-are-all-right-gamers-well-adjusted-civic-minded.html
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-17-08 12:40 PM
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1. OH THAT IS A KEEPER!
Every fricking time some dope who has never gamed uses that swisscheese APA study of 2001 to pull some DLC game banning bullshit...
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BreweryYardRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-17-08 01:22 PM
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2. Yes. That's a little more like it!
Voice of reason!
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