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"Average gamer is 35, often overweight and sad: study"

Nick Gillespie | 8.24.2009 8:18 AM

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It's in the papers (or whatever they are these days), so it must be true. And it's not just men.

"In short, they literally 'take their minds off' their worries while playing a video game," the researchers said in a statement.

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Nick Gillespie is an editor at large at Reason and host of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie.

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