Video games cause violence? Finally something I've researched more of haha. If you'd like to engage me in a debate over this Pulse I'll happily drive you into the ground.

Video games don't CAUSE violence

But let's say we take a group of 200 violent offenders

If significantly more than half of them played video games, it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt there's a correlation.

That doesn't mean CAUSATION... but it means there's a relationship between the two that deserves further investigation.

I loosely believe you can attribute video games to a percentage of violent crime. I just think there's things that work in tandem with video games like environment, financial situation, etc etc because a video game in and of itself shouldn't be the sole precursor to violent behavior. That wouldn't really make sense, would it? Because then you'd have to explain all the law abiding citizens that play GTA V and don't shoot shit up.


If you want to engage in a debate neither of us would win because we don't have sufficient data

I don't think this is accurate.

Lololololol!!!!

By this simple logic, you'd be investigating a whole lot of stuff for no good reason. 100% of violent offenders breathe. Should we investigate the relationship between breathing and violence?

I wish this thread would kill itself. Just self destruct.

It proves without a shadow of a doubt? So if we took 200 prisoners and more than half happened to be Asian, it proves without a shadow of a doubt that being Asian has a relationship with crime?

Video games, and television, have no hand in the causation of violent crime.

I don't think you know what a correlation is. Stay in school or go back to it.

I'm doing standard deviations, regression analysis, and all types of graphs/charts that deal in correlations currently for my master's degree. You're not telling me

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You know why your analogy is bad? ...Because how are you choosing those prisoners? Where are those prisoners? Are they in Asia? Are you making sure you pick more asians than prisoners of any other race? People can't help their race. But they can help what types of media they choose to consume, and those forms of media, in TANDEM with other things, can shape one's behavior. This isn't something you can argue.

Correlation doesn't mean causation. Something you and Aggo don't understand.
It just implies a relationship, and any further hypothesis/assumptions need to be investigated.

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When trying to sound intelligent goes wrong...L

We're talking about how external shit influences the internal. How external stimuli interact with/influence human psyche

Get your nonsensical bullshit out of here. You sound dumb.

Stay off this thread

They blamed heavy metal and gangsta rap in the 80' sand 90's....its all a bullshit scapegoat. During the assault rifle ban...1.6 mass shootings a year....Since it was lifted? Nearly 3x as many....of course the shootings occur on their own, especially when anyone can stroll down to the sporting goods store or local gun show to buy a Bushmaster with no waiting period and equip it on Walmart.com with free two day shipping.

Sounds like the stuff I did in my statistics 1 class in community college.

Aldi, by your definition there are infinite correlations so you've watered down your argument to nothing.