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Aswad -> RE: From the other side of the world (12/15/2012 9:56:03 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Edwynn
Like this observed result, you mean?
Most kids in Norway spend tons of time playing violent computer games, and there's no correlation between the increase in game sales and violence. Indeed, there's so little violence here that any effect would be subject to significant quantization noise in the statistics. As well, there has been a slight improvement in violence since before the video game era, except for two groups. One group is the young women, who are now catching up to their male peers in violence, but not catching up in video game use, and certainly not in the violent video game genres. Another group is immigrants from non-Western countries, where violence is much higher and video game use much lower.
Essentially, I submit there's no correlation, but I can entertain a negative correlation, the opposite of what you suggest.
In the ABB case, of course, I've also specifically verified the absence of a causative influence.
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By your estimation, the poor lad did not play enough violence-based video games to prevent such a tragedy.
No, what I was suggesting was, that the video game industry creates jobs and wealth.
We know that low unemployment and high wealth is correlated with low violence.
IWYW,
— Aswad.
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