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Japanese Researcher Finds Gaming Stunts Brain
Bill Gates writes: "This story at the Guardian describes research done in Japan showing that playing video games in youth prevents development of the front lobe, leading to violent behavior." Turns out what at first appears to be arbitrary, mind-numbing violence may turn out to be just that. It seems this study might have returned different results, though, if it looked at the effects of video games which require lots of calculation instead.
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Well what DO you expect?!
All these goddamned children are playing their
fucking Pokemon and shit!! In a matter of time
they wont know how to spell their own name!
Well GOOD, FUCK EM!! IT's called natural selection
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IF I EVER MEET YOU, I WILL KICK YOUR ASS!!
I may disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. --Voltaire
The problem with this study is that it isnt' relvent over here in the good ole USofA. There have been several good studies documenting the games Japanese youth play and the game US kids play. The Japanese games are much more violent, sexual, and "socially deviant" (article's words, not mine) than the US ones. What we see are a few select imports that are comparatively mild. Really, a good but unethical study would be some American chilren playing Japanese games in translation.
"I'm sure this is just like the uncontrolled study of Rhesus monkeys that "showed" marijuana causing intense distruction of brain cells."
What kinds of sick people sit around watching monkeys get high?
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This is utter bollocks.
I can't take this socialist hellhole anymore! I want to become an American!
Their nickname isn't the Graudian, you dumb fuck!
Shows how much you know, - it's the Grauniad.
Mod this twat down, fer chrissakes.
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Maybe I'll cum on it and let Nastard eat it.
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What a homo.
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Not good.
Yes it is.
If your actions have the potential of harming others you're not supposed to act impulsively.
The older I get the more I appreciate the wisdom in "think before you act".
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Again, Nads + Turds.
Thank you,
Bruce Perens.
The article said nothing about violent videogames stunting brain development, but rather about videogames (one word) stunting brain development. The conclusion is nonsense, unless all your kid ever does is play videogames (any idiot knows that's not a good thing for any brain).
......as a kid :P
(This lameness filter is getting on my nerves.)
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NT=no text
Precisely. Just because the frontal lobe is not under constant stimulus doesn't mean its development will be inhibited. It's just common sense that a kid who does nothing but play video games will not become a fully developed human being. Brains crave variety because they require it. This is why kids enjoy doing lots of other things, like playing cowboys and indians. Kids are perfectly happy to play outside as long as they have someone to play with.
I wonder what the brain scans would read when kids are at school listening to teachers' yapping.
Yeah, thank god the world has plenty of you rednecks around to keep proper balance, eh?
"Seemingly the only problem I ever find with these studies: people keep drawing whatever conclusion they want from their studies."
Did you read the fucking article? The conclusion that he had hoped to find is that computer games are *good* for kids.
You are pretty "dum." Don't play enough video games?
Learn how to read FUCKHOLE!!
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I think that first, we must fight bad spelling. Violence will certainly follow.
I was playing computer games before I could read, but for some reason space invaders and pong didn't really make me want to kick ass.
Yeah but you're in _fucking high school_. If your frontal lobe hasn't developed by then you'd be coming to school on the short bus or at least playing on the football team... not playing video games
Look it stunted their penis size
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Everything effects your brain chemicaly, EVERYTHING!
If your A's are from a school, your intelligence is made up of lies. Do your self a favor and forget what school has taught you. You have already made the first step towards personal freedom by choosing to consume a banned vegetable, finish off the states hold and forget the lies.
what created the comic code authority (a list of guidelines for comic books that said the main characters had to be nice and that the bad guy had to get his just deserts etc...)
spider man, and superman were born out of THAT scare.
I admit to learning a lot of right and wrong from the lessons that spider-man and superman taught. who is to say that i would have gotten those lessons somewhere else?
do children get that from quake 3? no
quake 2? maybe ... those stroggs were evil
The exact same thing was the banner under which censorship boards crusaded during the early 1900s with 'motion picture shows.'
The banned and censored so many movies, it truly boggles the mind. People like Joseph Lieberman can't wait to see those wonderful days return.
And to think Al Gore picked that man as a running mate, simply to get away from Clinton's busy beaver beater.
I like that you list 'going to church' as a means of escaping reality.
I play chess on my computer, that's about it. It's a "computer game" by the vague reference given here. I'm sure Sid's Civilization uses a different part of the brain then Quake. So which game are they talking about?
I could see how some of these games could be fucking mind numbing - I play tested for EA sports at some point in my life...FUCK, I wanted to mutilate livestock after a day of EA bullshit.
God damn you're a stupid bitch. How can you not know that the SAT IIs are? rofl, you don't deserve to be in Berkeley. Go to ITT Tech or a community college.
Slashdot is filled with twerps that like making up numbers for their standardized test scores.
My frontal lobes should be in fine shape because I always read Slashdot out loud.
It's not like he could be a lying sack of shit, or anything.
Any application of pain is child abuse, you sick fuck.
Have you ever considered that you have chronic depression, or might be bipolar?
When I played D2 for 12 hours or so a day, I wasn't depressed at all. Looking back at how boring and mindless the game was, months later, was a bit depressing, though...
Harvard is a joke. They've given need-based" scholarships of over $100,000 to a single student, whose parents earned over $180k/yr. Why? Because he was black. Sure, he had decent grades, extra curriculars and acceptable test scores, but they rejected numerous white students with superios grades/scores and equivalent or better extra curriculars. Thats both poor and rich white students. Asians face particularly bad discrimination in the applications process at Harvard.
No, I never applied to Harvard. As a Latino, I got a PHONE CALL from a recruiter at CalTech, where I hadn't even applied. Now that's racism.
Study results:
While reading Slashdot for ten hours a day doesn't increase violent behavior, it did tend to reduce the subjects' grammer and spelling skills significantly. However, the subjects that had frequently used AOL or IRC in the past were not affected. Their skills were already poor to begin with, and couldn't be reduced further.
Nice try at a troll, but it was too obvious.
And if you were serious, you're a moron. As the other poster said, by your logic Japan must be full of violent cavemen with an average lifespan of 25 years (artificially shortened by the rampant violence, of course).
Of course noone will believe this. Look around. Slashdot is a community that is addicted to video games by en large. It's like walking into a 1970s hippie retreat and trying to preach pot is bad.
We don't have a problem. We can stop any time we want. We just don't want to. It's not bad for us. We like it.