Study: 89 percent of parents believe game violence a problem

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Kantor said:

the_dengle said:

Max King of the Wild said:

Should be more like this...

Study: 89% of parents believe violent video games are a problem. Upon answering this survey 100% of those 89% went out and bought the brand new Halo for their child. One parent said while waiting in line, "This world needs more heros like Master Cheif to stand up for what is right."

Found out over Christmas my 9-year-old cousin plays Halo. Wanted to punch somebody. My uncle should know better, too, he's a gamer.

Of course, the kid also plays Kinect Sports, Mario Kart, and Pokémon. I'm sure he'll be fine. But come on... Halo? Really?

I do accept that I have a considerably more liberal view of this than most people, but there is literally zero correlation between video game and real world violence, and the only reason I can see to keep a game from a child is if it will cause them mental trauma. Halo will not.

That's generally not true.  There are a number of studies that show a correlation espeically when focusing on M rated games, 18+ games, shooters in general or games with specific violent factors. 

Of course all that correlation shows is that violent angry people like to play violent angry videogames.  It should be no surprise that people who like to go out and punch people like games in which they punch people, and TV shows in which people punch people, and books about punching people.