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Originally Posted by ken0042
I guess I would want them to define what they were looking for regarding video games. For example, my mom plays a bunch of card games on the computer- but I wouldn't call her a "gamer." But if she was asked on a survey "do you play computer games" she would respond "yes."
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Most of these studies do exactly this, leading to some people getting misconceptions. So I usually cringe when I hear some nerd proclaim these stats as some sort of validation of their hobby.
When a "gamer" thinks of "Video Games", they correlate this with things like consoles, and computer games like WoW/FPS. The people who respond assume that online poker, PopCap and other such things are "video games" (not that they are wrong).
Different groups have different definitions.