Study: Average Gamer is Overweight, Depressed

[ekidhardt]

do you need a scientific study to say that that gamers are fat loners?

seriously?

Please see page 74, under 'obvious facts'.

e

 

[salem80]

Living with First-Person Shooter Disease (read it)
http://www.hardocp.com/news.html?news=NDA2ODksLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdCwsLDE=

 

[jerreece]

[citation][nom]fulle[/nom]The average American is roughly that age, overweight, and depressed.[/citation]

So true. They keep doing study after study saying that Americans in general are getting more and more out of shape. Look at our diets! Lots of fast food and artificial foods.

Not a very accurate study if they only studied adults in the first place. To say "Average Gamer" is 35, overweight, and depressed. There are lots of skinny, immature, teenage punks who play games too.

 

[Impulse Fire911]

cure for depression- sex
cure for fatness- murilax (bout 5 a day)

 

[dextermat]

The problem is you might not have sex when your fat or a gamer

Unless you can find a attractive female gamer 😛 (But shell probably be fat and depressed too )

 

[dreamphantom_1977]

Who is paying for these studies?
What b.s.

 

[Kami3k]

[citation][nom]ekidhardt[/nom]do you need a scientific study to say that that gamers are fat loners?seriously?Please see page 74, under 'obvious facts'.e[/citation]

Please see page fail under "completely obvious facts" where it states you are a fail of a troll.

 

[Kami3k]

[citation][nom]dextermat[/nom]The problem is you might not have sex when your fat or a gamer Unless you can find a attractive female gamer (But shell probably be fat and depressed too )[/citation]

Ahhh another fail of a troll.

 

[Kami3k]

[citation][nom]Impulse Fire911[/nom]cure for depression- sexcure for fatness- murilax (bout 5 a day)[/citation]

Yes because something to help you take a shit will make you lose weight....

Why does the tom's sites now have a large amount of retards on it?

 

[Guest]

Well, I'm 20, good fit, practice martial arts and pretty much happy. Take that you obnoxious study! (?)

Oh, wait. North America. Where 1 out of every 3 people is fat and one out of 10 is depressed. That's totally not related to this study, or gaming. Right.

 

[onlyojay]

i've read almost everywhere that americans are fat and lazy...but i do believe that most 35'ers are fat,most 35'ers also have something valid to be depressed also...

and they forgot to mention also at this point of age also most male on the height of their carrier and being fat ass at the same time.

who the hell are they thinking buying all those pc hardware anyway?

15 years old fat ass?
60 years old fat ass?

 

[silversurfernhs]

big shocker

 

[grieve]

My new Study...

The avergae Anerexic video game player tends to be under weight and over the age of three!

Please send government funding to my paypal account CaptainObvious@hotmail.com

 

[eddieseven]

I’m not surprised at this result but fail to see the link with gaming.
I would assume that before the advent of the pc and the internet the average American would have been the couch potato stuck in front of the tv with a pizza, spare ribs and bag of popcorn hanging out of their gobs.
Nothings changed, the vehicle is different that’s all.

 

[leafblower29]

The average person is a gamer.

 

[gorehound]

I am 53 years old.My height & weight is 5'4" and 112LBS
I play games.i like FPSGames especially WW2 shooters.
I play in 2 bands with albums out and am not depressed at all.

www.bigmeathammer.com is where my art is

so much for these lame studies

 

[Maxor127]

lol at the people getting offended at the study... i believe it... and if you happen to be neither depressed or overweight, or maybe just one of the two then good for you, you're not the norm... the study just shows what everyone already knows... it's just funny reading the comments and seeing people make random generalizations as if they're fact, like that the health of the gamer depends on the genre or type of game he plays the most... "FPS and fighter gamers are younger and healthier than MMO gamers"... LOL

 

[Regulas]

That South Park episode was very funny, I laughed my ass off the first time I saw it. Let me see, study say eggs are bad for you, later they are good for you, then only the whites are good then its back to the starting point. I take these studies with a grain of salt myself. The only sad thing is that many of them are taxpayer funded and that is depressing in itself.

 

[brendano257]

It doesn't surprise me that overweight comes with some gamers. Addicted WoW gamers/no lifes yeah, that would make sense, no life=little more than average depressed. But really? Half of the gamers aren't "adults" I'm 16 and game quite a lot, but have a social life, friends (plenty) and play a sport or two decently, it doesn't have to be all or nothing on either side. Now if your life sucks and you hide behind your little dwarf in WoW, go find a life please. Really XD

 

[sactownbwoy]

Why so much hate on WoW? I play WoW, have been for 5 years. I started playing because some friends I worked with play. We are all healthy, married expect me and enjoy the outdoors and other activites.

As others have said this study is so flawed it is ridiculous. Why would they only have 552 test subjects and pick a place that is known to have a higher depression rate then the rest of the nation?