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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Re:Just like porn "conclusively" creates rapists

[Jakester2K]

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.