{"id":203,"date":"2011-04-08T08:58:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T08:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/?p=203"},"modified":"2011-04-08T08:58:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T08:58:10","slug":"computer-gamers-and-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/computer-gamers-and-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer gamers and university"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2011\/apr\/07\/computer-gamers-university-research\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> in the guardian yesterday (via @mikedicks) discussing research that computer gamers are less likely to go to university.<\/p>\n<p>This research tracked 17,000 born in 1970 and looked at their likelihood of going on to get a degree, finding that while reading significantly increased chances, playing computer games &#8211; as a sole recreational activity &#8211; decreased them. The article does discuss some of the limitations of the research, that the nature of computer games (and &#8211; I might add &#8211; universities) has changed fundamentally since the 1980s, and that it doesn&#8217;t prove any <em>causal link<\/em> between reading\/gaming and likelihood to go to university (albeit as an aside in the very last sentence of the article).<\/p>\n<p>However, I think a key point is glossed over. The study looked at people who were &#8220;playing computer games regularly and doing no other activities&#8221;. Surely this is an issue of single-focus rather than one of computer games per sae? I would argue that doing any activity to the exclusion of others is likely to have detrimental affects. Somehow it&#8217;s computer games get singled out as the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article in the guardian yesterday (via @mikedicks) discussing research that computer gamers are less likely to go to university. This research tracked 17,000 born in 1970 and looked at their likelihood of going on to get a degree, finding&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/computer-gamers-and-university\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-research"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71sY0-3h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}