EPTNew Study: Average gamer is overweight + depressed - Page 7
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cgrinker
United States3824 Posts
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Sinensis
United States2513 Posts
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laLAlA[uC]
Canada963 Posts
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Eatme
Switzerland3919 Posts
This is alot like the newsflashes that everything causes cancer. | ||
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BluzMan
Russian Federation4235 Posts
Tell your wonderful retard researchers to go to hell and give their grant money to someone who actually does something useful. | ||
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LuckyFool
United States9015 Posts
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G3CKO
Canada1430 Posts
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sudo.era
United States300 Posts
On August 28 2009 07:35 BluzMan wrote: So the point of the research is essentially "an average gamer is more depressed than an average non-gamer because an average depressed person is more likely to resort to games (drugs, alcohol, insert anything addictive) as a way of escapism than an average happy person"? Tell your wonderful retard researchers to go to hell and give their grant money to someone who actually does something useful. Most of you guys are interpreting this in one of two ways: 1.) The article suggests fat and/or depressed people are more likely to play video games as a form of escapism from their fat and depression. 2.) The article suggests that gamers are more likely to become fat and/or depressed as a result of their gaming habit. -- both of which are wrong. I was worried by reading the title that the study would be biased, but you can tell by reading the researchers' quotes that they performed the experiment with FLAWLESS SCIENCE (better than tl.net SCIENCE). The study acknowledges nothing more than the fact that there is a definite correlation between lard asses, depression, and gaming. It suggests no causation. One researcher even (naively) suggested that a healthy lifestyle be promoted from within video games, which establishes the audience much in the same way that you might run a commercial aimed at black people on BET. Being black doesn't make you a BET viewer, nor does watching BET make you black, but you still know that the majority of that audience is black. Likewise, the researcher suggests that fat/depressed gamers are an established audience, wherein gaming can be used as a platform to communicate with that audience | ||
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nitelight
United States16 Posts
For children and adults, he writes, games that require physical exertion, such as "Hide and seek" and "Freeze tag" are "still probably what we need most." Accounting for need is a perversion of the idea of a game in the first place... | ||
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Boundz(DarKo)
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Slynki
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MuR)Ernu
Finland768 Posts
On August 19 2009 09:35 StalkerSC wrote: I'm not overweight...but sometimes depressed  everyone is depressed at times | ||
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craz3d
Bulgaria856 Posts
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PobTheCad
Australia893 Posts
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Amber[LighT]
United States5078 Posts
Oh and they had to choose the state where the hugest SC player of all time lives(ish...). They should have just done California.. I thought that was where a lot of gamers live anyway. | ||
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MutaDoom
Canada1163 Posts
On September 01 2009 22:15 PobTheCad wrote: the more time you spend on games = the less time you have spending doing things that you could relate to the average person at a workplace or social gathering. Wrong. What about gamers at work? | ||
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NaW-Runa
Sweden85 Posts
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jjun212
Canada2208 Posts
On September 01 2009 22:47 NaW-Runa wrote: I'm depressed all the time, but not fat =( lol, ur halfway there then! | ||
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iloveambiguity
United States81 Posts
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PanN
United States2828 Posts
Sedentary lifestyles are dangerous to your health! And later, breathing? good?! Our elite investigative team looks into "breathing" tonight. | ||
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