+50 points to Mr. North.

Hey! That was my tip, North.

Only 1 hour a day? How can they expect to become pro... like me.

Am I still double posting? o_O

GodDAMMIT.

My login has teh aids. ;___;

Topher you are seriously cracking me up.

I would hope that you wouldn't have to spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours to do a survey to realize, "Hey, if kids play games they probably don't spend as much time doing things like school." No shit sherlock.

90 minutes on the weekends? N00bs! Yeah, the generalizations made from that study are faulty at best.

@Nyteshade: I found that when I was playing lacrosse in high school I did more homework and got better grades. I think it was because I had less time so I had to use it more efficiently. Also the whole "if you get more than two Ds you don't get to play" thing.

I'm pretty sure this story has already been done before.

*ahem* I notice that I did in fact go back to adjust for the 1/3 and forgot to adjust the 60% taking the full time. Whoops.

wat else r gamers playin video games in place of? they should do a study on how much sleep we get

If the kid is failing and he plays 6 hours a day of games, then yeah, he should spend more time studying, but if he still gets, good/decent grades, then what is the problem?

Like some have said, this study could mean that gamers are smarter so they need less homework time or that kids are learning from games and thus it replaces HW to some extent.

(I also think this was posted before)

I've seen this data used elsewhere, and in equally skewed manner. Nobody ever mentions nor pays attention to what those percentages actually equate to:

"On average, gamers played for an hour on the weekdays and an hour and a half on the weekends. Compared with nongamers, adolescent gamers spent 30% less time reading and 34% less time doing homework" (Source: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, where the study was published).

To be exact, ". . . boys spent an average of 58 minutes per day during the week and one hour 37 minutes on weekends playing video games, compared with girls who played for 44 minutes per day during the week and one hour and one minute on the weekends" (Any article on the internet about the study).

That means that during the week boys spent 41 minutes reading and 38 minutes studying, while girls spent 31 and 29, respectively. On the weekend (I'm guessing Sunday night), it was 68 minutes reading, 64 minutes studying for boys, and 43 minutes reading, 40 minutes studying for girls.

If my homework-deprived math is right, that's a difference of 13 MINUTES reading and 18 MINUTES studying for boys, and 15 MINUTES reading/21 MINUTES studying for girls.

These kids aren't reading or studying a lot anyway. And an hour a day doesn't exactly fall under the "hardcore" category.