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Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:21:25 +0000

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By: iComment

iComment — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:50:43 +0000

The brain gets used to the caffeine and ends up needing it just to function normally.

By: abidin

abidin — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:18:40 +0000

Caffeine is different from coffee. Caffeine content in coffee is only 2%, while the other 98% content has many health benefits. One of them, neutralize the effects of caffeine in the body. I think coffee has many benefits, and it’s good for your health.

By: Justo Diaz

Justo Diaz — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:30:18 +0000

The gender differences might be a manifestation of the willingness of male gamers to welcomed a greater challenged. Was this factor investigated or eliminated from the experiment?

By: KactusCrow

KactusCrow — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 00:27:02 +0000

Caffeine consumption rises as do AIDS cases.. coincidence?

By: Karl

Karl — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:33:04 +0000

Let’s also not forget about our friend aspartame.

By: Medisoft

Medisoft — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 06:04:24 +0000

So far my kids aged 4 and 6 have not had any caffeine drinks, but I’m sure as they get older they will. I am going to try to control their intake as much as possible.

By: Shane

Shane — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 04:58:03 +0000

Re Petrus:

You seem to have missed my main point because I went off on a tangent. My primary argument was this:

Fully half of the study was conducted with boys and girls playing games that did NOT earn them caffeine rewards. To make it perfectly clear, they measured persistence both with AND without caffeine.

Their analysis revealed a difference in behaviors between the genders where caffeine WAS present.

They had baseline data where caffeine was NOT a part of the reward, and it was important enough to them that they structured the study explicitly to collect that data.

By: DHW

DHW — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 03:21:58 +0000

Males like playing video games far more than females, it has nothing to do with them wanting coffee more than females. How do you complete a study and entirely miss such a huge variable?

By: Rick

Rick — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:41:58 +0000

In addition to the boy like games more thing stated in previous comments there is another problem. Atleast half of the 12 year olds who say they drink coffee are lying. I remember when I was 12 all the kids say they drank coffee. So as a reward for doing something my teacher brought in coffee and doughnuts. Most of the kids spit out the coffee. Now things could have changed, but I’m thinking the 12 years olds want to sound ‘grown up.’