I feel that drawing conclusions from that sample is likely to be representative for the whole world of gamers.
I do disagree with you on physical activities for 6-9 year olds, though. If they do that in their free time rather than schoolwork, it is not a certainty that they will do worse later on. It never seemed to affect results much in school around here, anyway.
I do disagree with you on physical activities for 6-9 year olds, though. If they do that in their free time rather than schoolwork, it is not a certainty that they will do worse later on. It never seemed to affect results much in school around here, anyway.
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/Scientific Findings: Video games may hinder learning for boys
- 16/03/2010 07:48:18 PM
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really, 64 kids? so that's 32 who got a playstation?
- 16/03/2010 09:52:21 PM
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Hah. Not a very convincing sample size there.
- 16/03/2010 11:54:44 PM
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Actually an N=30 is sufficient to produce a normal curve and minimize error.
- 03/04/2010 05:26:27 AM
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And anyway, any null hypothesis can be rejected with a large enough sample size.
- 10/04/2010 03:49:41 AM
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what? you mean if I don't do my scholastic work, my academic progress will diminsh?
- 17/03/2010 01:47:51 AM
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Re: /Scientific Findings: Video games may hinder learning for boys
- 18/03/2010 01:37:19 PM
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The words "video game" can be replaced by anything with the same result.
- 19/03/2010 05:54:51 AM
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+1 for misspelling the phrase per se. Apparently Yahoo has now corrected that error. *NM*
- 21/03/2010 09:23:04 PM
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