A couple days into the project I had made a decision to take a survey as to what people of varying ages thought about video gaming. The majority of the elderly people rejected the idea of gaming. Most thought it was "A waste of time" or "they are bad.", and replied with sentences such as; "They kill your brain cells"and "I don't like them. They teach the children horrid things." When I asked people between the aged of 18 and 21 most liked the concept of video games. When I asked, 8 out of 10 males had a video gaming system in their apartments/rooms. For the females the outcome was 4 out of 10. I then took the freedom to ask each person if they would categorize themselves as having good hand-eye coordination. As I predicted more males than females stated that they did indeed have good hand-eye coordination. When I asked children between the ages of 9 and 14 most of them thought of video gaming as a positive and amazing thing. Most didn't see any negatives of it. I then asked them what their favorite methods of study were. Most replied.."electronically." Most children these days are now using ipads, computers, and electronic devices to study from and educate themselves with.
I thought these observations were quite interesting. Some of them I could have predicted but other answers I was definitely not expecting.
-Anneliese Feldner
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