| method114 said: Yes so what we should do is look at who is doing the studes and who is more reliable. For instance:
The American Psychological Association performed a review of the subject in 2010 and found that hostility related to video games affected a certain subset of children who possess the “perfect storm” of traits: neuroticism, low levels of agreeableness (or empathy), and low levels of conscientiousness. “Violent video games are like peanut butter,” Christopher J. Ferguson, of Texas A&M International University said of that research. “They are harmless for the vast majority of kids but are harmful to a small minority with pre-existing personality or mental health problems.” The American Psychological Association is way more reliable in a situation like this. Not to mention the recent goverment study that was done that lead to the same conclusion. Not to mention common sense. I mean seriously do people think so little of children that simply playing violent video games is going to make them violent. It's such a silly thing to think that are brains are that easy to manipulate. |
The study in your link was made with 118 teenagers over a short time frame. The study in my link was made with 3,034 children ages 8 to 17 over a three-year period. Statistically my study is the better one.
Also this thread is about kids and not about teenagers.
And lastly history shows already that brains are easy enough to manipulate:
Hitler youth or somalian child soldiers just to name two (extreme) examples.
