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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."
I'll shoot anyone in the face who says that I'm violent.
Just taking the viewpoint that the majority of comments will probably not take.
Just because I can hook a shark from a boat, I do no offer to wrestle it in the water.
You know what else makes people indifferent and uncaring... living in New York city. Nobody can ignore a bum on the street nearly as well. Should we ban living there too?
I'll pummel them I tells ya! How dare they! Video games don't make me more violent! I'll rip their throats out!!!!
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How does one double-blind a video game violence study? The subject pretty much has to know whether or not he/she has been playing a violent video game. Unless you've got funding to include NOXIOUS AMNESIA GAS in the protocol.
I would assume by killing all the dissenters.
Reading your comment turned me into a violent criminal.
And that's conclusive.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
I'm waiting for the meta study that shows that studies on video games leading to anger make video gamers angry.
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There's only one thing for it - we need to do a metastudy on this serious issue!
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It really depends on the game though. Everytime I see road kill now I have the urge to pull over and loot the body.
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This. Now get off my lawn or I'll txt teh copz n ul b sry.
Unlike most papers, where you have to read them to discern whether they cherrypicked their evidence, with metastudies you know right away.
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That sentence contradicts itself. Why should I believe any conclusions that follow such a premise?
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Another day, another "lies, damn lies, and statistics" bullshit study.
Yeah, why do these guys keep trying to tell us this bullshit. We know that games can't make people violent, because of freedom of speech!
It makes me so angry when these pussies publish shit like this. I wanna go out and fuckin KILL THAT ANDERSON JERKOFF!!!
Please don't confuse psychology with science. Scientists certainly don't.
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Blimey, talk about a predisposition to being aggressive.
The media's also going crazy popping stories about how that raving lunatic professor who shot up her campus was a "fan" of Dungeons & Dragons.
It's also a clear and unmistakable fact that over 90% of all heroin users started out drinking milk.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
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