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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."
You know, psychology has shown that "letting it out" doesn't in fact result in your become calmer. It does rather the opposite.
I don't really think that engaging in videogame violence is anywhere near the real thing, I'm just saying that if that's your reasoning, it's flawed. If that's your excuse for playing videogames, why don't you just admit that you enjoy them, and leave it at that?
That's right! "I see your statistical analysis of 130 different studies and raise you baseless conjecture".
I'm convinced.
(This'll probably get modded as a troll, but it's no more so than the parent)
Heh! You reminded me of an incident that happened to me on a train a long time ago:
I was sitting in the Smoking Car (remember those?), waiting for the doors to close and for the train to move out, when a rather disheveled gentleman walked onto the car, looked up the aisle, looked down the aisle, said "you get cancer from smoking," and walked out.
I shared an amused grin with the person diagonally across the aisle from me, and said "You get cancer from people who say you get cancer from smoking."
And we both cracked up.
Please don't use research to try to refute anecdotal evidence. Slashtards only appeal to science when it agrees with their beliefs.
Kids who's parents neglect them and allow them to spend all their time alone are bound to end up mal-adjusted.
Then maybe the "kids who is parents" should not be having kids that young and should instead be giving them up for adoption by adults.
(Possessive pronouns never have apostrophes.)
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
No, in my opinion, these e-mails were not "stolen", but, rather, outed by a hero whistle-blower. The illiberals (scratch a climate alarmist, and you will find a Che Guevara T-shirt underneath), use the terms "stolen" and "theft" referring to them, however, suddenly having found, that some information may be stolen, after all — as long as it is not movies nor music, and as long as victims aren't Corporationy Corporations, but "scientists".
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.