Harvard Phd Vs. About.com over Gaming

MaryAlan writes "I don't know if anyone has noticed this, but About.com's Aaron Stanton is in the middle of a back and forth firefight with Dr. Thompson, a Harvard researcher who recently testified before the U.S. Congress about violent video games. She published a study that listed Pac-Man as being 62% violent. Stanton attacked in an article criticizing her research. Then, Joystiq.com contacted Dr. Thompson and got an interview and a response, published her rebuttal, in which she defends the Pac-Man rating and the study. So today, Stanton attempted to tear the study apart, detailing why it's flawed even though Thompson claims otherwise. On one hand we have an established Harvard Phd, who has testified before the U.S. congress, against a game journalist with a bachelors degree in Psychology. Hmmm..."

Comments

Re:Judge the argument, not the person

[Weh]

Do you even realize what those numbers represent? Man, every time someone mentions violence and videogames in one sentence the whole of slashdot goes crazy trying to claim that videogames are completely benign.

Re:Perfect for Slashdot

[JockTroll]

More likely he's just another nerd who enrolled thinking he'd do great at University and then found out that, like all nerds, he was not so bright after all. So he dropped out and he's now flipping burgers, hauling trash or cleaning toilets. And when he looks upon the people who made it he still thinks "I'm better than them because... BECAUSE!" and the thing that burns him worse than anything is that those very people are the same who in high school excelled in sports, were popular, and invariably stuck his head into the toilet or worse.