The Guardian took an Oxford University study saying that reading is “linked to career success” and magically turned it into “computer gamers less likely to go to university.”
If you don’t have time to read the proper coverage of the research (by The Press Association), these are the only two paragraphs talking about computer games and neither of them say anything about gamers being less likely to go to a university.
Activities such as sports, playing a musical instrument or computer games make no difference to a person’s career, but there is a clear link between reading for pleasure and gaining a good job, it found.
The research also reveals that teenagers who spend their time playing computer games shouldn’t worry about their job prospects – there was no evidence that playing computer games frequently made it less likely that a teenager would get a good job.
So yeah, ignore Guardian’s bullshit anti-gaming journalism. Playing games doesn’t decrease a teenagers’ changes of going to university any more than reading does.
