The survey, released Tuesday, combined the telephone responses from a nationally representative sample of 1,102 young people, ages 12 to 17, and their parents. Performed from November 2007 through February of this year, and partly funded by the MacArthur Foundation, it had a margin of error of three percentage points.
Among other things, the survey found that:
— Ninety-seven percent of young respondents play video games. That’s 99 percent of boys and 94 percent of girls, with little difference in the percentages among various racial and ethnic groups and incomes. In fact, 7 percent of those surveyed said they didn’t have a computer at home, but did have a game console, such as Sony Corp .’s PlayStation, Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox or Nintendo Co.’s Wii.
When I was a child you were one of the cool few people if you owned a NES or SNES. Everyone wanted to stay at your house so they good play games. Now everyone is playing their own games at their own house. Are video games getting less social? Wow, that can start a few debates.
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