Comments on: videogames, cars, and alleged dangers http://www.jon22.net/videogames-cars-and-alleged-dangers/ The Website of Jonathan Dobres Wed, 07 Jul 2010 17:09:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: GDeeeeZL http://www.jon22.net/videogames-cars-and-alleged-dangers/comment-page-1/#comment-1111 GDeeeeZL Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:58:13 +0000 http://www.jon22.net/videogames-cars-and-alleged-dangers/#comment-1111 Frankly, JD, I'm not surprised at all by this finding. We've known for years that Duke Nukem 3D caused Columbine. It's 100% pure, hard science. Video games prove violence. It's not guns that kill people, or even people with severe psychopathology and substantial instability, it's abstract digital representations in media: music lyrics, and 64+bit characters from interactive gaming systems. Surely, this can be generalized to the realm of violent driving. In today's fast-paced world, we can't deny that correlation DOES indeed equal causation. There isn't enough time for replication of studies. Hell, there isn't even time consider things like significance levels, power, sample size, or study design. What we need are undereducated social sceince researchers from the States and the international community to construct study designs in crayon (for efficiency, of course) to get national funding from committees comprised of MDs, and administrators with BAs in sociology and international relations from U of Phoenix online. This will ensure the highest quality fixed experimental designs in some of the worlds leading laboratories: arcades, McDonalds, and dairy farms. "So say we all." Frankly, JD, I’m not surprised at all by this finding. We’ve known for years that Duke Nukem 3D caused Columbine. It’s 100% pure, hard science. Video games prove violence. It’s not guns that kill people, or even people with severe psychopathology and substantial instability, it’s abstract digital representations in media: music lyrics, and 64+bit characters from interactive gaming systems. Surely, this can be generalized to the realm of violent driving.

In today’s fast-paced world, we can’t deny that correlation DOES indeed equal causation. There isn’t enough time for replication of studies. Hell, there isn’t even time consider things like significance levels, power, sample size, or study design. What we need are undereducated social sceince researchers from the States and the international community to construct study designs in crayon (for efficiency, of course) to get national funding from committees comprised of MDs, and administrators with BAs in sociology and international relations from U of Phoenix online. This will ensure the highest quality fixed experimental designs in some of the worlds leading laboratories: arcades, McDonalds, and dairy farms.

“So say we all.”

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