New ‘Study’ Says Gamers Are Drunk, Drug Abusing & Insecure Anti-Social Retards
January 23rd, 2009 | Written by Anthony Perez | Topic: Play
In a new “study” by Bringham Young University, “researchers” found that gamers are more likely to abuse drugs, drink heavily, and avoid family and friends. I use the word “study” lightly because they didn’t actually study a damn thing and “researchers” lightly because they didn’t find it necessary to think twice about these odd findings.
The study was done through an online survey, and as any marketing professor will teach you, surveys – particularly online surveys – can oftentimes produce bad information because people lie, especially college students who play games. After all, if the survey results are to be believed, we’re a “fuck the establishment” kind of bunch aren’t we?
People lie in surveys for a variety of reasons, but here’s a short list:
- Surveys are anonymous, so it doesn’t matter
- It’s fun to lie to people that are trying to figure you out
- Some respondents may be forced into completing the survey, and will just answer with anything
- Sometimes you get paid to finish them
Just a couple of months ago, I was offered an opportunity to do an online survey for $50. I did it, but because of the subject matter of the study I said that I was a married black woman aged 31-36 with 3 children making over $75,000 per year. I did the study by choosing answers totally at random, and a few weeks later received a check in the mail. So somewhere out there a “researcher” is trying to figure out how a middle aged black woman with 3 kids skydives “1-3 times per week” and has had “30+ sexual partners.”
Also, have you ever had to do those retarded surveys on electronic job applications for shit jobs like JC Penny? Yeah, me too. First of all, you could care less about the damn job as long as they pay you slightly more than McDonalds. Then, you have to answer tough questions like “What do you do if a customer gets really angry and demands to see the manager?” Well, I would suppose it’s not best to punch the customer, take his money, and violate his daughter, so odds are that’s not the answer.
In short, online surveys are stupid and so are researchers who take obviously unreliable information and e-mail it to newspapers.
via Telegraph
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Comment by TheForgotten0ne on the January 23rd, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Cheer for the stupid people eh?
I don't see how they came up with that conclusion. I do know that a lot of people that already have some of those problems like drunk or insecure Anti-Social Retards (as you called them) often end up playing MMO's. Why? Because people don't know you, it's a hole new world for them, but it's positive for them, they get to socialise again, they get to talk to people.
But gamers don't often end up that way, thats just stupid.
Comment by JoshS on the January 26th, 2009 at 4:06 am
You know, I never took the Mormons over at Brigham Young seriously anyways…