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Man, I am really getting sick of the media harping on this. The irony of it all is the fact that media itself has some part in perpetuating the aggressive behaviour if indeed there was a connection.
Video games still get add time on the TV and in magazines. Also, the fight for ratings and audiences in the last few years have caused print and visual media to become even more sensational and I find that one could do worse by just sitting their child in front of the TV set. At least with the game the child is not letting his/her mind go waste.
And I really get annoyed when they try to foster these crappy studies on us as evidence. If any of their staff had studied statistics in college, they might realize that there are too many confounding varibles to make a real correalation between violence and video games. I don't want to hear about this again unless the next study that pops up was made with a statiscally signifcant part of the population with well thought out controls to filter out varibles such as predesposition or the natural rush of adrenaline that might come from some exciting game play.
When that happens though, I think a lot of the doom sayers are going to shit themselves when they realize that there is still no strong realtion between violence and games except in those situations where the gamer has issues with mental health.
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