Another Study Attacks Violent Video Games, Claims To Be "Conclusive"

Killer Orca is one of many to tell us about a new study on the effects of violent video games on kids. The latest meta-study that analyzed research from 130 different reports claims to have "conclusively proven" that violent video games make more aggressive, less caring kids. "The team used meta-analytic procedures — the statistical methods used to analyze and combine results from previous, related literature -- to test the effects of violent video game play on the behaviors, thoughts, and feelings of the individuals, ranging from elementary school-aged children to college undergraduates. [...] Anderson says the new study may be his last meta-analysis on violent video games because of its definitive findings."

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OH they are conclusive??

[gurps_npc]

Why of course they did. I havent read the article yet, so let me put forth what they have to do to truly be conclusive. So they:

1. Measure ACTUAL criminal activities convictions, as opposed to the bullcrap "aggressive thoughts" or actions that these scientists like to claim are violent instead of merely memories or normal, NECCESSARY assertive thoughts (i.e. they measured violence not merely a mind set that they personally dislike)

2. They compared it with non-violent video game usage of the same type? (i.e. they did not figure out that humans are violent)

3. They compared people that did NOT self-select the violent video games (i.e. they don't confuse cause and effect)

Now, let me read the article and find out that:. These morons did NO research themselves, did NOT attempt to measure actual criminal activitieas, did NOT compare non-violent video games with and did NOT stop self-selection. All these incompetent fools did was do a study of other studies and found that most of the flawed existing studies confirm their own personal predelictions.