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Old June 30th, 2008, 04:20 AM   #1
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Digital Home Canada - Poll finds number of Canadians playing video games naked

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Poll finds number of Canadians playing video games naked Friday, 27 June 2008 For reasons that we at Digital Home Canada still can't fathom, Microsoft has commissioned a poll that asked respondents if they have every played a computer game: in public; at work; in the bathroom; in the bedroom, or in the nude.

The results of the Ipsos Reid poll seem to suggest that there are few limits as to how online Canadians like to enjoy their computer games.

The poll of just over a thousand online adult Canadians has found they are playing games in a wide-range of places. These include playing computer games while at work (30%), in the bedroom (27%), in public (19%), and even in the bathroom (7%). Half of Canadians (50%), however, have not played in any of these locations.

For those who absolutely must know, the study also found that one in five Canadian men (17%) has played a computer game in the nude while a significantly smaller percentage of women (9%) have done the same.

It appears that younger adults have a greater propensity for nude gaming. An alarming one in four Canadians aged 18 to 34 (23%) have played a computer game in the nude, while those aged 35 to 54 (12%) or over 54 (5%) are less likely to have done so.
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In addition to determining the percentage of Canadians who have played games in their birthday suits, the study has some less sensational but perhaps more interesting findings:

  • Nine in ten online Canadians (86%) have played minesweeper or solitaire on their computer, making them among the most widely played games available. Half (53%) have bought a video game at some point in their lives – men (59%) more than women (49%). Other activities include playing an online game like Diner Dash (28%), playing a game on Facebook like Scrabulous (25%), and playing a “massively multi-player game” like World of Warcraft (12%). Only one in ten online Canadians (9%) have not done any of these activities.

  • While men (19%) are more likely than women (5%) to have played a massively multi-player game, women appear more inclined than men to play smaller online games (32% and 25%, respectively) and Facebook games (29% and 21%).

  • Canadians living in Ontario (63%) are most likely to have bought a video game, followed by residents of Alberta (57%), Atlantic Canada (53%), British Columbia (52%), Saskatchewan and Manitoba (45%), and Quebec (40%).

  • Thinking about their earliest memory of using a computer, three in ten (29%) say it was playing a free Windows game, such as Solitaire, Free Cell, Mah Jong, or Minesweeper; two in ten (19%) say their first experience was word processing, either to write an essay or a letter. Other first experiences include playing educational games at school (15%), e-mail (15%), and playing Wolfenstein or King’s Quest (5%). Two in ten (17%) say none of these properly describe their earliest memory of using a computer.

  • The average age at which online Canadians first played a computer game is 29 years old. The average for those aged 18 to 34 is 11.5 years old, while the average is considerably higher for those aged 35 to 54 (29 years old) and those over the age of 54 (45.6 years old).
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one in five Canadian men (17%) has played a computer game in the nude while a significantly smaller percentage of women (9%) have done the same.
And of course a large percentage of the men that do this do so with some form of web cam, while none of the women do.
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The ones that involve people playing games.
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Being Canadian and not among those polled I guess I'll add my personal data to these numbers.

I have not played a computer game while at work.
I have played a game in the bedroom.
I have played in public.
I have played in the bathroom.
I have not played a game while nude.
I have played Minesweeper or Solitaire on my computer.
I have bought a video game at some point in my life.
I have never played Diner Dash.
I played Scrabulous once.
I have not played World of Warcraft.
My earliest memory of using a computer was playing some Smurfs game on the Commodore 64.
I first played a computer game probably when I was 5 or 6.
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An alarming one in four Canadians aged 18 to 34 (23%) have played a computer game in the nude, while those aged 35 to 54 (12%) or over 54 (5%) are less likely to have done so.
why is it alarming?
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why is it alarming?
Because it's a Microsoft commissioned poll. Microsoft is an American company and nudity is evil and wrong and indecent as far as Americans are supposed to be concerned.
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Because it's a Microsoft commissioned poll. Microsoft is an American company and nudity is evil and wrong and indecent as far as Americans are supposed to be concerned.
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Because it's a Microsoft commissioned poll. Microsoft is an American company and nudity is evil and wrong and indecent as far as Americans are supposed to be concerned.
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