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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What role do video games play? Why study hard when games are much more fun? [/quote]

Yep. That's the standard BS line, along with Asian boys have no trouble with school. The truth is that many boys turn to video games to escape educational settings where they feel like failures. It's a catch-22. [/quote]

That’s total BS.  Boys turn to video games because they are fun, and are particularly designed to be addictive especially to young male brains.  All my nephews and my son and his friends are all hard core gamers, and they have no academic problems.  Even the ones with PhDs love video games!  But if you want to give up and not try very hard, the sweet siren song of gaming (and porn) is there just waiting for you.

Statistically, incarceration also probably makes a difference.  There’s a lot more males aged 18-22 in prison than females.  [/quote]

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S[quote]ocial science researchers cite distractions and obstacles to education that weigh more on boys and young men, including videogames, pornography, increased fatherlessness and cases of overdiagnosis of boyhood restlessness and related medications.[/quote][/quote]

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