Do violent video games cause violent crime?
Or the opposite?
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The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 17:20,
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But...
If you extend the time period to today...
Edit: that graph is completely useless for making ANY causal conclusions about the game violence/real violence association at all.
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Fishcat Difficult difficult lemon difficult., Thu 12 Mar 2009, 17:27,
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the real interesting thing is the government
has a folder called bjs and this is supposedly the kind of image in it
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 17:36,
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Well 'tis the Merkin government...
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Fishcat Difficult difficult lemon difficult., Thu 12 Mar 2009, 17:58,
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Ah, of course, a contextless graph!
That to me seems about as valid as one of them silly graphs from Brasseye.
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It's about as meaningful
as the arguments the other way.
Think of it as a blunt instrument to shorten arguments with twunts.
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The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 17:31,
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people that know nothing but accuse games of causing violent crime
aren't interested in facts or they'd not be people that know nothing about it.
See? Perfect logic.
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 17:35,
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Yes 0.2 per thousand playing doom made crime (not specified as violent by that) drop by 10 per thousand
or whatever.
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 17:31,
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I call logical fallacy
it's a False Correlation
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Sonic 2 and Knuckles, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 17:37,
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you're biased
give me my coins back!
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Thu 12 Mar 2009, 17:49,
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