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A Dissenting Opinion on New Gentile Research

By james_fudge

A Reuters Canada report offers an overview of the study released yesterday by Douglas A. Gentile, who runs the Media Research Lab at Iowa State University in Ames. Besides glossing over what the study found, the report offers a dissenting opinion on the research from Mark Griffiths, director of the International Gaming Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University in the UK.

Griffiths says that the study has some "important flaws," not the least of which is numbers that do not quite add up.

"My own research has shown that excessive video game play is not necessarily addictive play and that many video gamers can play for long periods without there being any negative detrimental effects," said Griffiths. "If nine percent of children were genuinely addicted to video games there would be video game addiction clinics in every major city!" Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on January 18, 2011 (boomark / email).