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Study Finds Fault In Parental Controls, Parents

Global Consulting firm User Centric recently conducted a study on effectiveness of parental controls in electronic devices. 20 parents and 20 children were gathered, with the parents asked to set up parental controls and children asked to bypass them. The results will shock you. Well not really, I just wanted to feel like the nighttime news hook story commercial voice over guy. The results are pretty much what you'd expect. Confusion about ratings and how indeed to setup the controls themselves led to a 47% failure rate on video game consoles, with lesser degrees of failure for V-chips, mobile phones, and DVRs. I take two things from these results. First, parents need to better understand the ratings systems before they start trying to restrict access to them, and User Centric needs to perform another study on parents who aren't stupid. Hit the jump for User Centric's press release, discovered via GamePolitics. More »

10:20 AM on Tue Oct 2 2007
By Mike Fahey
2,175 views, 43 comments

Latest by n/a: I didn't know you could do that to video game consoles. Our family vets games very hard before anything comes into the house. we rent online from www.gamefly.com and they have parental controls (the kids haven't figured out a way more »