Is There Evidence That Children Shouldn't Be Worried About Video Games?

"It would be astonishing if millions of years of evolution decided that the best way to produce a survival machine would be to have something that lays around for the first 18 years of its life and does nothing," he says. "I always tell my friends when they make this objection that they're just going to play video games all day... It's like, where's the evidence that this is any worse way to spend time than going to school? If you just look at the studies on the efficacy of school, they're wasting their time there anyways."