Off Topic: University: Gaming addiction is real but over-diagnosed
Research
at the U.K's University of Bolton says that gaming addiction may be
over-diagnosed up to 10 percent of the time because indicators that
were previously thought to relate to a gaming addiction had been
borrowed from gambling addictions; what are the odds? Those markers may
not translate between the two behavior patterns as well as previously
thought.
10 percent doesn't sound like a major mistake -- unless you're in that group -- but the study balances some recent reports that
hype and overstate the problem. (Oh
Tyra, we thought you were better than the local news.) Still, the research stresses that gaming addictions are real.
Zack Stern
March 27, 2007
Source:
Joystiq