An older (August 2005) article which illustrates the use of videogames as a negative cultural value.
65 out of 490 young ladies who attend Timkin High School in Canton, Ohio are preggers, and video games may be to blame
I also present a comic from the brilliant Penny Arcade videogames blog, and the corresponding Gamasutra article,
A controversial new academic study has suggested that playing violent video games can lead young men to believe it is acceptable to smoke marijuana and drink alcohol
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What I think would be interesting is a more rigorous study that establishes whether people take the results of this kind of 'academic study' at face value. A sample of 100 male undergraduates is a far from representative sample that IMO is not going to give significant results. However given that the results confirm the apparently largely held perception that videogames == bad it seems likely that people won't question them...
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