Madman With a Box (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 09/17/08 | Reply
They had a report on CBS Evening News last night about how games are actually good learning tools for kids, because they can teach teamwork and other skills.
Baron of Terribad (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 09/17/08 | Reply
With numbers that high, I would say there is probably a bias in the survey results (the families with people who actually play video games were probably more likely to answer the survey than families with people who don't play games). Still, it is not really surprising to hear more young'uns are gamers -- hell, more and more people around me became gamers as I grew up, haha.
EDIT: The sample size for this survey is pretty standard. It has been a long time since I took statistics, so I am a bit fuzzy on this, but that is about the right size to extrapolate and be confident that your results are representative of the population as a whole. I assume it was a random survey, although I did not see that specified in the article and I can't view the report PDF on Pew's Web site for some reason ...
Last edited by Shinmaru at 11:52:32 AM EDT on September 17, 2008.
Raid Boss (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 09/17/08 | Reply
These numbers seem pretty high to me, and that there wasn't that much of a difference in race, class, sex, or religion kind of sets my sociology alarm bells off. I think this data might have been a little biased, but I didn't look to see where it was coming from. The survey may have included the definition of video games to be games on your phone or iPod or maybe things like Solitaire on your PC. But I think with things like Nintendo's putting out it is getting less rare to see casual gamers.
But yeah, the gamer side of me can appreciate not getting smeared by the media for once.
I remember sporadically playing my father's Atari now and again when I was young, or Commander Keene on the PC (or that really bad boxing game he had), but most of what I did was outside, and half of that was baseball. The other half was me digging a hole to China with a dinner spoon and making up stories about spy-squirrels and beating a sock filled with tent caterpillars against a brick wall....
Point is, I never had pokeymanz; after Dad sold his Atari, there wasn't a system in the house until I bought one in what, sixth grade? And that was the same year I read Moby Dick.
Which was a bad decision.
But anyway, given the choice between video games and reading (OR BASEBALL, if anyone's ever playing), I'll probably snag a book and crash. More fun that way.
Although I really should finish Tales of Phantasia.
mewmewpudding
Otaku Eternal | Posted 09/17/08 | Reply
I like how there weren't that many differences between the genders and races. Even if it is a "smaller" survey, and makes me feel happy. :3
*goes off to play the Nintendo 64*
TimeChaser
Madman With a Box (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 09/17/08 | Reply
They had a report on CBS Evening News last night about how games are actually good learning tools for kids, because they can teach teamwork and other skills.
Bazinga!
Shinmaru
Baron of Terribad (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 09/17/08 | Reply
With numbers that high, I would say there is probably a bias in the survey results (the families with people who actually play video games were probably more likely to answer the survey than families with people who don't play games). Still, it is not really surprising to hear more young'uns are gamers -- hell, more and more people around me became gamers as I grew up, haha.
EDIT: The sample size for this survey is pretty standard. It has been a long time since I took statistics, so I am a bit fuzzy on this, but that is about the right size to extrapolate and be confident that your results are representative of the population as a whole. I assume it was a random survey, although I did not see that specified in the article and I can't view the report PDF on Pew's Web site for some reason ...
Last edited by Shinmaru at 11:52:32 AM EDT on September 17, 2008.
Love thy Evangelion.
red tigress
Raid Boss (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 09/17/08 | Reply
These numbers seem pretty high to me, and that there wasn't that much of a difference in race, class, sex, or religion kind of sets my sociology alarm bells off. I think this data might have been a little biased, but I didn't look to see where it was coming from. The survey may have included the definition of video games to be games on your phone or iPod or maybe things like Solitaire on your PC. But I think with things like Nintendo's putting out it is getting less rare to see casual gamers.
But yeah, the gamer side of me can appreciate not getting smeared by the media for once.
Allamorph
Spiritus Memorae (Otaku Eternal) | Posted 09/17/08 | Reply
When I was a young warthog....
*ahem*
I remember sporadically playing my father's Atari now and again when I was young, or Commander Keene on the PC (or that really bad boxing game he had), but most of what I did was outside, and half of that was baseball. The other half was me digging a hole to China with a dinner spoon and making up stories about spy-squirrels and beating a sock filled with tent caterpillars against a brick wall....
Point is, I never had pokeymanz; after Dad sold his Atari, there wasn't a system in the house until I bought one in what, sixth grade? And that was the same year I read Moby Dick.
Which was a bad decision.
But anyway, given the choice between video games and reading (OR BASEBALL, if anyone's ever playing), I'll probably snag a book and crash. More fun that way.
Although I really should finish Tales of Phantasia.