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This just in: if you play video games, you're not doing homework!
2007-07-04, 9:57 AM #1
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/07/02/health/webmd/main3009349.shtml

:eek:

You mean to tell me that if Kid A and Kid B both do activity C, but that if Kid A does activity C and activity D, he's spending less time than Kid B on homework?

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2007-07-04, 10:14 AM #2
Of course! Logic, my friend!
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2007-07-04, 10:19 AM #3
I think they're looking at this the wrong way. Clearly, the more important issue is that if you do your homework, you're not playing video games.
2007-07-04, 10:29 AM #4
Why do people waste so much time doing studies like this? I wonder what it must be like to realize that your existence is totally useless because you got some looser degree in collage because you spent the whole time partying.
2007-07-04, 11:17 AM #5
"Kids kept journal entries on a random weekday, and a random weekend.

40% of the kids didn't do the journals. They probably play videogames, but we don't know because they don't do their homework."
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2007-07-04, 1:31 PM #6
Hrmm, replace every occurrence of 'video games' in that article with 'sports' or 'sleep' or 'doing something other than homework in their free time' and the topic is still quite feasible...

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2007-07-04, 1:46 PM #7
Thank you CBS for this valuable lesson! I get it already! Video games are bad for you! If you play them, you won't amount to anything in life!
2007-07-04, 1:49 PM #8
INCONCIEVABLE!

...Wait. It took scientists to come up with that?

No ****ing ****. If someone's doing something, he's clearly not doing something else.
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2007-07-04, 2:31 PM #9
Originally posted by Jep:
INCONCIEVABLE!


You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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2007-07-04, 2:43 PM #10
I think the real question here is in what way doing one's homework affects one's score in said games.
2007-07-04, 3:52 PM #11
I think they're forgetting to include the fact that 90% of high school homework can be completed in the actual school day. Whoops.

I always had plenty of time to be a loser and play games all day and I still got all As in high school.
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2007-07-04, 4:00 PM #12
Originally posted by Achelois:
I think they're forgetting to include the fact that 90% of high school homework can be completed in the actual school day. Whoops.

I always had plenty of time to be a loser and play games all day and I still got all As in high school.


Yeah me too.

Except I managed to not get As.
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2007-07-04, 4:39 PM #13
Originally posted by Stormtrooper:
Hrmm, replace every occurrence of 'video games' in that article with 'sports' or 'sleep' or 'doing something other than homework in their free time' and the topic is still quite feasible...

:suicide:


Indeed.

But, I dod (that might have been a little Freudian slip there :o) have to admit, I don't do my homework when I pay video games!
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2007-07-04, 4:42 PM #14
Quote:
Video Games May Divert Kids From Homework


They just found out. :neckbeard:
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2007-07-04, 5:00 PM #15
This is about as good as the "hardcore gamers buy more games than casual gamers" article I saw the other day.
2007-07-04, 6:27 PM #16
I personally never found or felt that homework was that effective.

Instead of forcing you to spend the time on it, they allow you the liberty to half *** things and you don't learn much.

It's one thing if it's a HUGE project you have to reasearch and work on, but DO THIS RANDOM SHEET OF MATH WHERE I CAN'T SEE IF YOU'RE USING A CALCULATOR OR NOT LOL just never struck me as doing much.
2007-07-04, 6:31 PM #17
I call bull****. The results of this study make no intuitive sense at all. None.

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