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Thread: Penn & Teller's Video Game Bullshit
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07-14-09, 10:10 AM #11
Re: Penn & Teller's Video Game Bullshit
Interestingly, there is correlational (not causal) evidence demonstrating a link between violence in video games and increased aggressive behavior. And it is about the same as the increase seen in those after watching a football or soccer game, or a violent tv show or movie, or after playing cops and robbers, etc. WHich means kids ought to be likely to shoot their classmates after video games as they are after T-Ball practice.
Originally Posted by dex71
But having read many of the studies linking video games to violence, it is largely correlational (which does not imply causation) and those that attempted true experimental studies did a bad job (see the study by Anderson and Dill for example: http://web.pdx.edu/~cqmv/anderson.and.dill.html it is one of the often cited ones as it is one of the few with a "true experimental design") and only show an increase in aggression that is comparable, as said, to that experienced after watching a boxing match or a football game.
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