Yes, prisoners would be better served spending bettering themselves. I also agree that playing video games is not a right. However, taking a privilege away from inmates can be like taking a bone away from an anti-social dog: you take care you don't get your hand bitten. In the same vein, my heart goes out to the COs in Missouri. This decision might make things more tense for a month or so.
Wonder if video games will go underground like drugs.
Some years ago Murray and Herrnstein published the book "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life" in which they inferred from their data that blacks naturally had a lower IQ than whites. Their data certainly seemed to support this claim. However, they were suspect to Simpson's Paradox, in that if they had further stratified their data by social class, then their data may very well have suggested their claim was false. So since many minorities live in poverty or near-poverty, the IQ scores for their races were subsequently lowered.
I am naturally very skeptical of studies such as these for the very same reason. As for the study in this post, they would have to have raised children from birth in uniform conditions in order to avoid any biases that culture might induce. Since this is not likely to be the case for this study, I have a hard time believing their conclusions. I would be much more prone to believe that children who are raised in a similar manner as girls in the US are worse at math --- whatever that means --- than those who are raised like boys.
Barbie dolls or Legos, which one helps a child develop spacial reasoning? Which one is traditional given to boys, to girls?
Now if you'll excuse me, I am late. I am meeting my friends and we are going to play that wonderful game "Jump to Conclusions".
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I must now kill everyone involved with video for implanting that inane song in my head.
Yes, prisoners would be better served spending bettering themselves. I also agree that playing video games is not a right. However, taking a privilege away from inmates can be like taking a bone away from an anti-social dog: you take care you don't get your hand bitten. In the same vein, my heart goes out to the COs in Missouri. This decision might make things more tense for a month or so.
Wonder if video games will go underground like drugs.
I wonder if they'll ever have pictures for a search for tits?
I'm so late I don't have time to hit "Preview" and notice that I forgot those damned
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Some years ago Murray and Herrnstein published the book "The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life" in which they inferred from their data that blacks naturally had a lower IQ than whites. Their data certainly seemed to support this claim. However, they were suspect to Simpson's Paradox, in that if they had further stratified their data by social class, then their data may very well have suggested their claim was false. So since many minorities live in poverty or near-poverty, the IQ scores for their races were subsequently lowered. I am naturally very skeptical of studies such as these for the very same reason. As for the study in this post, they would have to have raised children from birth in uniform conditions in order to avoid any biases that culture might induce. Since this is not likely to be the case for this study, I have a hard time believing their conclusions. I would be much more prone to believe that children who are raised in a similar manner as girls in the US are worse at math --- whatever that means --- than those who are raised like boys. Barbie dolls or Legos, which one helps a child develop spacial reasoning? Which one is traditional given to boys, to girls? Now if you'll excuse me, I am late. I am meeting my friends and we are going to play that wonderful game "Jump to Conclusions".