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Psychotic said:

I'll certainly take a look at these, thanks. But from what I saw from Ferguson before, he seemed very biased.


Do you have any links claiming that what he has done is bad science? He does do a lot of work on video games, but unless there is some fault found in his studies, that doesn't really mean much.

 

Also, take a look at the Supreme Court's 2011 opinion on the matter:

-"Psychological studies purporting to show a connection between exposure to violent video games and harmful effects on children do not prove that such exposure causes minors to act aggressively. Any demonstrated effects are both small and indistinguishable from effects produced by other media."
-"Instead, “[n]early all of the research is based on correlation, not evidence of causation, and most of the studies suffer from significant, admitted flaws in methodology""

http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/10pdf/08-1448.pdf