Obama: Console era a concern for education

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Kasz216 said:

sieanr said:

Kasz216 said:

sieanr said:

homicidaIpanda said:
Liberal...

What of it?

Plenty of conservatives rally against video games as well, and a good number of them claim games incite violence as well as stupidity.

Try adding something of substance to the conversation instead of a knee jerk politicizing remark.

richardhutnik said:
Would focus on jogging or playing hoops out on the court actually improve math and science scores? How about promoting strategy games, like Chess or Go? How about having historically based games that generate an interest in history? I know Obama plays basketball, and there is genuine concern that excessive and unfocused to any end videogames can be a problem. BUT, to say kids need to get into shape more physically will help with grades how?

I will go on record here saying that an interest in the game Civilization would do more to raise school scores than playing basketball.

http://www.livescience.com/health/081229-sports-youth-exercise.html

A bunch of studies have shown that exercise correlates with better test scores.

Democrats and Republicans both to tend to think videogames incite violence and Stupidity.

The main difference is... it's usually just Older Republicans... yet all democrats.

Younger Republicans tend to be very accepting of videogames.

 

Additionally, excercise also correlates with more active parents. (in their child's lives).  It's not so much the exercise that makes kids smarter, but the parents caring more, forcing them to get exercise as well as helping them with their homework, demanding their children get education etc.

Education is very highly tied to power adversion...  If you are more likely to challenge and authority your more likely going to end up getting a better education.

And the data supporting this is from where? Personal experience? I've met plenty of young die hard republicans who think games are degrading society (they're generally evangelical chrisitians) I've yet to met a democrat of my age who hates videogames.

Oh, and could you read the article next time too? Exercise causes the brain to release a large number of hormones, some of which promote new brain growth. The stuides also corrected for differences in socio-economic status and parental involvment, rendering your point completely mute.

The data is from... what actual polticians support.  Heck, the younger Republicans actually provide "game rooms" and stuff at random Republican events with games like COD.

Also, it's Moot... not Mute... and Not really.  I mean if YOU read the article, you'll notice it's based on some pretty tenous research.  They aren't even really willing to endorse it as being true.  Also, nowhere does it say they corrected for "socio-economic status and parental involvement."

Were you just banking on me not having read it?

So you have data that proves all democrats are against games and all 'young' republicans are pro-games? Give me a break. And once again you can find plenty of younger, self-identified republicans raised in very conservative households who view games, films, ect. as inherently evil. Quit white washing the parties.

And yeah, it does render your point irrelavent. You stated that benefits of exercise had to be due to parental involvement, as well as stating that exercise in and of itself doesn't make kids smarter. The study shows that exercise promotes brain growth (which has been known for a while) and takes into account outside factors like socio-economic status. You can argue the validity of the research all you want, or try to sideline the discussion by picking feathers over a simple brain fart and a literal interpretation of my wording. The fact of the matter is you've merely provided an opinion that isn't supported by facts or research. Unless your hiding some.

Oh and direct quote from the link;

"In the second year of the study, socio-economic status was taken into account, to possibly eliminate that variable as an explanation. As expected, those in the upper-income brackets scored better overall on the academic tests, but within the lower-income set of students, the same results were observed — kids who were more fit performed better academically."

One of the biggest reasons for divergent test scores is removed and there is still a corelation between exercise and test scores. Which means that even the kids with a good home had differences linked to fitness.