How Can Online Gamers Balance Their Time Between Video Games and Academics?

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How Can Online Gamers Balance Their Time Between Video Games and Academics?
Part I
Online gamers always spend a lot of time playing on the internet and searching for new video games. On the other hand, academics also need a lot of time to be spent in studying. Therefore, those who are addicted to online video games and at the same pursuing academics will need to balance their time as the two require a lot of time to be sacrificed. Therefore, the aim of my project is to study how people balance their time for playing online games and pursuing academics without their performance being affected.
Part II
The General Audience
Several people have at one time in their life played video games including adults. Unluckily, the old age did not play video games when they were young because the games had not been invented when they were growing up (Hamari et al. 172). However, they have experienced the impact of the games on their children’s life since they had the opportunity to watch them grow up playing video games and pursuing their academics. Therefore, my general audience will be families, including parents and their children.
Academic Audience
However, parents are busy in life balancing the time for providing for their families and studying. Hence, those who are still pursuing their education dreams have little time to play video games. Therefore, I will specifically target students as the audience for inquiry on academics since they have a lot of time to spend in playing the games and pursuing their dreams. The focus of inquiry on this group is to identify how they balance their time for paying the games and pursuing their careers.
The Type of Data to be Collected
The research will require quantitative data instead of qualitative data. Qualitative data are descriptive in nature and they are mainly obtained through observation. However, it will be difficult to follow students or families on how they conduct their daily activities which renders qualitative data inappropriate to the research. On the other hand, quantitative data is numerical in nature which renders it preferable to the study (Shawn, Nicholson and Bennett 418). The research will require recording the amount of time that people spend in learning and playing games which must be quantified to record the duration. Numerical data are more objective and more reliable than descriptive data for this study.
However, data can be obtained from various sources, including secondary and primary sources. Primary data refers to information that had never been gathered before. Primary data is preferable for a study that had not been done before and the information cannot be obtained from outside sources. While secondary data comes from other studies that had been done by organizations and institutions. The source of data is preferable for a study that is too large or no data collection has been done on the topic before (Shawn, Nicholson and Bennett 418). However, its validity, reliability, and accuracy rely on the integrity of the institution that obtained the information. Hence, the best sources to obtain the data will be recognized institutions and organizations such as the government database and the famous research b...