A study carried out by U.S. researchers came to a very obvious conclusion: gaming robs homework time! They concluded that boys who play video games on school days spend 30 percent less time reading and girls spend 34 percent less time doing homework than those who don’t play anything.
“Gamers did spend less time reading and doing homework. But they didn’t spend less time interacting with their parents or their friends, nor did they spend less time in sports or active leisure activities,” said Hope Cummings of the University of Michigan.
The data was gathered from a nationally representative sample of kids aged 10 to 19 in 2002; their activities were tracked on a random weekday and a random weekend day. They found that boys spent an average of 58 minutes playing on weekdays and around two hours on weekends.
Interestingly, the study found out that boys’ reading was hampered and girls’ homework time was hampered - it wasn’t the other way around. Also, gamers didn’t spend less time with their family or friends because of video games.
“These findings do not support the notion that adolescents who play video games are socially isolated,” the authors wrote.
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