Parents beware! Not only will your children turn into murderers, rapists and all round violent people but now they’re going to grow a gambling addiction as well if they play video games.
If you look at those young people who are classified as pathological gamblers you will find that they do have a higher frequency of involvement with many different types of videogame. They’re much more likely to play games on Xboxes and similar consoles. They are also more likely to play arcade games.
It does suggest that if you’re a person who is playing very frequently, more likely if you’re a male too, and doing it from you know year after year, it’s probably more likely you’ll have a pattern of activity which will make poker machines quite attractive when you turn 18.
So if you’re attracted to video games you’ll then be attracted to slot machines and the like. As a gamer for nearly two decades now, I know that I can’t tell the difference between Sega Rally, House Of The Dead and a poker table, so maybe there’s truth to it after all.
Or maybe these “professors” should spend more time studying why our society and its all round low moral puts out anti-social members of society, while the video game industry usually puts out artists and computer programmers.
Source: ABC
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