Video Game Tabboo Results

  The results are in from the rather small-scale survey I conducted in regards to video-game's and video-game violence.

The results weren't entirely shocking or surpirising, but did further highlight the stigma that is still attached to video-games in the UK.

As you can see from the pie chart below, 22% of the people surveyed did not believe that playing video-games is an acceptable hobby.

Hardly too surprising like I said, but what was a little bit more controversial was the 40% who thought that people who played videogames had less social skills than those who did not. Why ever would they think that?

Onlytwo people believed that violence in video-games was a real issue, although ten peole thought that it was an issue sometimes. Much to my surprise, only one of the people who think the opposite read the Daily Mail. Or maybe they are the ones will admit it.

Eight out of 28 people believed that there was strong evidence to support that there were proven links between violent video-games and violent behaviour. Undisputable proof that the media is doing its job.

20 out of 28 agreed that there is a fundamental problem when it comes to parents understanding video-game age restrictions. Here are some of the comments:

"Simply a lack of attention (there are BBFC ages attached so there's no excuse) and an archaic concept that games are still for children, not mainly for adults."

"they think games consoles are targeted so much to children so that adult aged games are just seen as kids toys still, many wont realise that the age restrictions are there for a reason the same with films etc"

"I think the parents that do are probably generally oblivious to things like that! I reakon most parents will just be generally aware of what their kids are playing on and will make their own decisions based on what they think it appropriate for their kid."

"They understand but are too scared to censor the games their children play."

"I think this because most parents don't seem to care about the age rating, they'll buy the game no matter what content's included."

And my favourite comment of them all, "Too busy getting pissed."

To see the results, click here.

Q. Is playing computer games an acceptable hobby?