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If any of you have seen the recent news articles on "surveys" into gaming and agressive behaviour, maybe you'll feel as dissapointed as me. It happens time and time again, foney researchers try to fool the population with their scaremongering results of cheap experiments.
This time they took two groups of individuals, one who played violent vidoe games, another who didn't, and found via 'psychological analysis' (which stinks of fudged results) that those who played violent games were in turn more agressive. Playing on parental fears and hiding behind scientific terms, they ignored the simple truth that those with more agressive personas will naturally tend towards more agressive games as a safe outlet. As always happens, there is nobody to point this out to the people watching or reading this, the news companies know they will also benefit from the sham, holding thir viewing figures, so what remains is parents blinded by matenal/paternal instinct to the point that they won't look at the report objectively. And every time it works, while the only consequences the glorified con men consider is what's going to happen to their bank balance.
This time they took two groups of individuals, one who played violent vidoe games, another who didn't, and found via 'psychological analysis' (which stinks of fudged results) that those who played violent games were in turn more agressive. Playing on parental fears and hiding behind scientific terms, they ignored the simple truth that those with more agressive personas will naturally tend towards more agressive games as a safe outlet. As always happens, there is nobody to point this out to the people watching or reading this, the news companies know they will also benefit from the sham, holding thir viewing figures, so what remains is parents blinded by matenal/paternal instinct to the point that they won't look at the report objectively. And every time it works, while the only consequences the glorified con men consider is what's going to happen to their bank balance.
Just goes to show...
If any of you have seen the recent news articles on "surveys" into gaming and agressive behaviour, maybe you'll feel as dissapointed as me. It happens time and time again, foney researchers try to fool the population with their scaremongering results of cheap experiments.
This time they took two groups of individuals, one who played violent vidoe games, another who didn't, and found via 'psychological analysis' (which stinks of fudged results) that those who played violent games were in turn more agressive. Playing on parental fears and hiding behind scientific terms, they ignored the simple truth that those with more agressive personas will naturally tend towards more agressive games as a safe outlet. As always happens, there is nobody to point this out to the people watching or reading this, the news companies know they will also benefit from the sham, holding thir viewing figures, so what remains is parents blinded by matenal/paternal instinct to the point that they won't look at the report objectively. And every time it works, while the only consequences the glorified con men consider is what's going to happen to their bank balance.
This time they took two groups of individuals, one who played violent vidoe games, another who didn't, and found via 'psychological analysis' (which stinks of fudged results) that those who played violent games were in turn more agressive. Playing on parental fears and hiding behind scientific terms, they ignored the simple truth that those with more agressive personas will naturally tend towards more agressive games as a safe outlet. As always happens, there is nobody to point this out to the people watching or reading this, the news companies know they will also benefit from the sham, holding thir viewing figures, so what remains is parents blinded by matenal/paternal instinct to the point that they won't look at the report objectively. And every time it works, while the only consequences the glorified con men consider is what's going to happen to their bank balance.