MMOGology: Gamerz is speshul

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The researcher had a follow-up column on GameSpot you may want to check out where he mentioned that the point of the study was not to draw parallels between gamers and people with Asperger's, but rather to point out that people afflicted with Asperger's may be especially susceptible to becoming addicted to online games.

Quote: "The point about Asperger's was just that the relationships between addiction and the personality characteristics that we examined suggested that [massively multiplayer online role-playing games] might be addictive to people with Asperger's--and I tried to emphasize the 'might' to reporters--since the relationships between the addiction indices we used and the personality traits that we looked at suggested such a possibility," Charlton said.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6189003.html

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Thanks for the added clarification Cameron. I figured there had to be more to this than most press sites were reporting. It's not unusual for the press to latch onto the sensation grabbing headline and chuck out the context of the content.

Still, if he was quoted accurately, it's a big generalization that's going to ruffle some feathers.

It'd be great if the study and its results were made public at some point.

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