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DOES VIOLENT VIDEO GAMES HELP CHILDREN?

// March 2nd, 2009 // Hott Perspective

PANELISTS debate whether games like Fallout 3 and Gears Of War 2 are teaching children skills they’ll really need in the End Times.

Even though the video above is all done for the sake of comedy –

HERE’s A MORE SERIOUS NOTE: In a recent study where researchers tested 310 Dutch children ranging in age from 7 to 17. Participants read fictitious game descriptions and rated how much or how little they wanted to play each game. In every group, the more objectionable the content, the more kids clamored for the controller – “forbidden fruit,” the researchers called the games. The findings are published in the March issue of “Pediatrics.”

While research has found ratings increase the attraction to raunchy TV shows and movies, the hypothesis had never been tested with video games. Researchers suggest youth should not be allowed to buy their own games and policymakers should rethink the classifications (such as M, appropriate for those 17 and older), which will only make the games “unspeakably desirable.”

Now about slapping a label on that algebra book . . .