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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ycore Rixle" data-source="post: 1212801" data-attributes="member: 675">Only anecdotal evidence, not scientific or statistrically significant, but for what it's worth...I teach middle school and high school, and I run a computer games room in a summer camp. The kids who are interested in pen-and-paper gaming are, in my experience, definitely above average in scholastic performance. I do not see this tendency in kids who are interested in just computer games. Also, without a doubt both groups of gamers are more imaginative and more interested in learning than average.Quite interestingly, I have taught at an all-girls school for the past two years, and this holds true even more so for the girls. Without exception, every single girl gamer at this school whom I have met in the last two years has been an above-average student and very keen on learning. Of course, I have only met six such girls (I'm not counting the girls who like to play Sims - they are legion - but I have never considered the Sims to be a "gamer's game", fine effort thought it is).</blockquote>